Luigi Serafini

Born in Rome, in 1949, Luigi Serafini is an extensive traveller who was once an architect, a designer and an artist! He is best known for creating the “Codex Seraphinianus” an illustrated encyclopedia of imaginary things in what is believed to be a constructed language.

During the 1980s Serafini worked as an architect and designer in Milan. His objects were often defined by a certain metalanguage aptitude.

Serafini worked occasionally for theatre, cinema and television. He has created scenery, lighting and costumes for the ballet "The Jazz Calendar" by Frederick Ashton, he has done set designs for RAI, television acronyms and logos etc. He also worked with Federico Fellini on “La voce della luna” for which he developed early designs.

He has a laboratory of ceramics in Umbria and continues to give touring personal exhibitions, especially in the Netherlands, and participate in art collectives. Luigi Serafini lives and works in a town between Rome and Milan.