I like to say that I have never really worked in my life.
I have simply enjoyed being a composer and teaching in Italian Conservatories, guiding students in the discovery and understanding of the great works of music through Musical Analysis.
Several of my compositions have been performed in concerts across Europe, the United States and Canada, broadcast by radio stations such as RAI, Radio France and Radio Prague, and recorded on CD.
I have also created multimedia performances in collaboration with other artists.
In 2025 I began exploring paths in mathematical-digital art, intertwining them with my music.
Some works have been presented in international contexts, including the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, In alis artis in Milan, and the Galerie Thuillier in Paris.
A trilogy of audiovisual works will also be presented in an upcoming event at the Friedman Gallery in New York.
My encounter with mathematical-digital art and fractals
In my youth, I studied mathematics at university, completing most of the exams before leaving my studies to devote myself fully to music, teaching, and composition. That interest, however, remained in the background.
Over the years, I also created several multimedia performances: the visual elements were produced by other artists and selected collaboratively, but even then I was already fascinated by the relationship between mathematical forms, visual perception, and music.
This interest has gradually taken a more defined shape in my current research.
Artistic Research
My work arises from the intersection of mathematics, image, sound, and emotional pathways.
Through mathematical-digital forms and musical composition, I explore processes of transformation in which an origin expands, multiplies, or changes.
Bifurcation — understood as the transition from unity to multiplicity — is a central dynamic of this research: a primary form that opens like a Y, generating possibilities.
Alongside this, an energetic dimension emerges, shaped by tension, accumulation, and rarefaction, in which form takes shape and evolves over time.
The works do not narrate but open perceptual spaces where image and sound invite a direct experience, suspended between order and transformation.
Within this space, form becomes the place where a possibility appears: the possibility of choosing, and therefore of existing.
In 2025 I began to explore this field directly.
Critical Perspectives
Sandro Serradifalco
Masters in Paris
Galerie Thuillier, Paris, 2026
War
In War, Sergio Pallante uses the language of mathematical art to construct an image that, despite its abstraction, conveys tension and conflict. The fractal forms, repetitive and hypnotic, generate a visual space that seems to expand infinitely, evoking a dimension of confrontation without boundaries or resolution.
The use of vivid, contrasting colors intensifies the sense of instability, while the underlying mathematical structure suggests an apparent order that is constantly put into crisis. Pallante translates the theme of war into a non-narrative, conceptual vision, in which chaos emerges precisely from an excess of structure. The work thus becomes a reflection on the ambiguity of progress and on the subtle line separating rationality from destruction, offering the viewer a powerful and unsettling image, to be experienced rather than simply interpreted.
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