Eric Serafini was born in 1962 in Les Mureaux, near Versailles, and has long lived in Correggio. His path begins between two forms of drawing: the technical discipline of car design and the intimate vocation of painting. At twenty he moved to Turin to study automobile body architecture, later working on prestigious car projects and portraits of luxury cars. Yet painting gradually became the true centre of his research, until in the mid-1990s he chose to devote himself entirely to it.

Serafini’s visual language is founded on black and white, on tonal passage, and on a physical relationship with the surface. His reflections pass through the study of the old masters and through Edward Steichen, whose photography revealed to him the paradox of a classical image placed within modern visual culture. His style, often described as Vintage-Pop, transforms public images into contemporary painting: not nostalgia, but a way of restoring aura, silence, and dignity to icons consumed by collective memory.