The works presented here are part of Quod quaeris ars, a journey in which image and sound attempt to approach what often escapes language.
Et lux facta est (2026)
an audiovisual work in four parts (work in progress)
Et lux facta est explores how the world is perceived and constructed through human experience.
We do not perceive the world. We perceive a translation of the world.
What we call light, sound, image, or reality does not exist immediately as such. Before perception there are signals, fluctuations, waves, and transformations. Through mathematically generated visual structures and original music, the work investigates this passage while bringing together physical, biological, philosophical, and human dimensions.
The cycle consists of four parts:
Ab origine
Fluctuations
Aisthesis
Rendering the Dark and Silent World
The first part, Ab origine, is currently available. The remaining sections are in development.
Ab origine
The work originates from the idea of a source: the moment that precedes every defined form, every image, every sound, every relationship.
Through the interaction of music and mathematically generated visual structures, the video explores origin as an open possibility.
Not a completed creation, but a presence gradually emerging, like a breath expanding and contracting.
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Before every image there is light.
Before every sound there is vibration.
Before every relationship there is the possibility of encounter.
Ab origine inhabits this initial space, where forms have not yet fully appeared, yet energies, tensions and possibilities are already present.
Breath provides the generative principle of the entire work. The music unfolds through a slow alternation of expansion and contraction, whith the visual structure following a similar process, progressively emerging from an indeterminate condition.
The source evoked by the title is not limited to physics or cosmology. It may be understood as the origin of a light signal, a sound vibration, a thought, a perception, or a human relationship.
Rather than offering a fixed explanation, the work invites the viewer to dwell in the moment when something begins to appear and the world, before being fully recognized, slowly takes shape.
Freedom – The Y Form (2026)
Audiovisual cycle composed of four works exploring choice as a form of freedom.
Through generative visual structures and original music, the project creates an immersive space where paths multiply, intersect, and eventually take form.
The Y shape, understood as a bifurcation, becomes a symbol of decision and of existence itself.
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The project emerges from the interaction between mathematically generated visual structures and original musical composition, developed in parallel rather than in an illustrative relationship. Image and sound follow a shared expressive path, creating an immersive environment in which the viewer is invited to navigate.
The four works outline a progression:
- The Path: origin and initial direction
- Field of Possibilities: opening to multiple potential paths
- Within the Choice: immersion within the act of choosing
- The Y Once Again: return and definition
The cycle revolves around a central idea:
freedom does not lie in the infinite expansion of possibilities, but in the act of choosing — and therefore in self-limitation.
At the core of the project lies the Y shape, understood as a bifurcation: a point of separation and decision.
It becomes a symbol of choice, freedom, and, more deeply, of existence itself, conceived as a continuous confrontation with diverging possibilities.
The works are conceived as open material, adaptable to exhibition and installation contexts, with potential development into immersive environments.
The Path
A path emerges from emptiness, defining a possible direction.
Field of Possibilities
Multiple trajectories unfold and overlap, creating a field of possibilities.
Within the Choice
The gaze enters the space of possibilities, drawn by their internal tensions.
The Y Once Again
Among possible paths, one is chosen: freedom emerges as limitation.
Availability
The cycle is conceived as an audiovisual work and as a potential installation.
Videos, selected video excerpts and derived images are available as prints (canvas or photographic paper) upon request.
For information: sergiopallante.art@gmail.com
About Forgiveness (2026)
Audiovisual diptych exploring two complementary modes of forgiveness: a slow process of covering and a sudden rupture that reveals what had remained hidden.
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When we are hurt by others, the wound is immediate. Forgiving others becomes a process unfolding over time: a gradual covering, a layering that tends to obscure what has caused the injury.
Self-forgiveness follows a different path. It often emerges only after time has passed, appearing as a sudden rift — a fracture that reveals, retrospectively, the harm done and the mistake, sometimes in its most absurd dimension.
If in the first case forgiveness acts as a covering, in the second it takes the form of a revelation. Two opposing temporalities, two complementary movements.
Images derived from the work
Forgiveness – Spiral with Leaves
Forgiving Myself – A Rift on the Absurd
Availability
The cycle is conceived as an audiovisual work and as a potential installation.
Selected images derived from the project are available as limited edition prints upon request (canvas or photographic paper), accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
For information: sergiopallante.art@gmail.com
The Shape of Desire (2026)
Audiovisual work in two movements: Matter and Spirit.
The work explores two modes of transformation: in Matter, forms emerge and disperse; in Spirit, they transform and persist beyond their visible boundaries.
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The work originates from the idea of a shared generative structure capable of producing different outcomes depending on its direction.
In Matter, desire unfolds as a tension toward multiple objects: what emerges is unstable, dispersing and fading without ever consolidating into a lasting form. Repetition does not lead to development, but to continuous variation without permanence.
In Spirit, the same generative force does not exhaust itself but transforms. Forms do not dissolve; instead, they mutate while retaining an underlying continuity, as if a deeper identity persisted beyond their visible manifestations. The image tends to exceed its own boundaries, suggesting a space larger than what is shown.
Sound and image evolve in parallel, not in an illustrative relationship but as converging processes. The work does not aim to resolve the tension between instability and permanence, but to sustain it, inviting the viewer to remain within that open field of perception.
The Shape of Desire
Availability
The cycle is conceived as an audiovisual work and as a potential installation.
Selected images derived from the project are available as limited edition prints upon request (canvas or photographic paper), accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
For information: sergiopallante.art@gmail.com
The Power (2026)
Audiovisual diptych composed of The Two Social Climbers and Bubbles.
Rather than addressing power as an institution, the work explores it as a dynamic process: a force born from competition, ambition and self-assertion, whose consequences extend far beyond its apparent protagonists.
The protagonists are not truly the protagonists. The focus of the work continuously shifts from the individual figure to the structure, from the individual to the field of forces that generates it and continues to produce effects long after the individual has lost centrality.
Through fractal imagery and original music, the cycle reflects on the relationship between action and consequence, individual ambition and collective effects.
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This diptych explores a recurring human dynamic: the pursuit of status, influence and affirmation.
In The Two Social Climbers, two figures move along parallel trajectories within a larger structure that both contains and surpasses them. Although they appear to be the protagonists, they do not occupy the true center of the image. Their paths leave behind traces, tensions and consequences that suggest a broader reality already at work. The piece functions as a suspended moment rather than a narrative sequence.
In Bubbles, what remained implicit gradually becomes visible. Consequences spread throughout the visual field, taking on multiple forms and directions. The bubbles may appear light and harmless, yet they become symbols of influence, manipulation, diffusion and fear. The two climbers reappear only as marginal and obscured presences. Their conflict no longer concerns them alone: its effects spread outward, shaping the lives of those who experience its consequences and revealing the broader force that has driven them from the beginning.
Musically, the work unfolds through continuous transformation. An ironic ceremonial march is gradually disturbed by an increasing sonic presence that eventually interrupts its apparent stability. In Bubbles, the rhythmic character of the march survives in altered form, becoming progressively darker and more dramatic until reaching its climax in the final clash.
Rather than presenting a fixed statement about power, the work examines how certain dynamics emerge, sustain themselves and ultimately generate consequences that extend far beyond those who initiated them.
The Power
Images derived from the work
The Two Social Climbers
Bubbles
Availability
The cycle is conceived as an audiovisual work and as a potential installation.
Selected images derived from the project are available as limited edition prints upon request (canvas or photographic paper), accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
For information: sergiopallante.art@gmail.com
Other Works
Communicating the Inexpressible (2025)
Video
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When words are no longer sufficient, images and sounds become the place of a possible encounter.
Sound and image proceed through hints, suspensions and fragments, allowing a fragile tension to emerge, never fully resolved.
The work does not offer a message, but rather an attempt: to approach what resists language.
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – numbered and signed by the artist (current availability: 19/20)
Canvas print €450
Photographic print A4 €180
Digital file bmp/png €380
Video file mp4 €220
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The Enchanted Forest (2026)
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A dense weave of signs seems to transform into an imaginary landscape.
As in dreams or fantastic tales, the gaze can lose itself among branches, paths and sudden lights.
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – numbered and signed by the artist
Canvas print €450
Photographic print A4 €180
Digital file bmp/png €380
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Absurd Flowers (2025)
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Mathematical structures generate forms that resemble impossible flowers.
Figures that appear both natural and artificial at the same time, suspended between order and imagination.
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – numbered and signed by the artist
Canvas print €400
Photographic print A4 €150
Digital file bmp/png €340
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Branching Paths – Possible Directions (2025)
Video
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The work explores the eternal tension between the known and the unknown.
Established, linear and unidirectional paths stand in contrast to irregular, uncomfortable and multidirectional trajectories. The former appear reassuring and predictable; the latter open toward new horizons, which may prove fascinating or dark and unsettling.
In this process, images and music follow parallel paths. Visual transformations find a sonic counterpart that does not describe, but accompanies the moment of choice.
Sudden changes in density and rhythm mark the passage from a single direction to a multiplicity of possibilities, sharing a space of hesitation, doubt and openness.
The work does not suggest a solution, but invites the viewer to pause at the point of bifurcation, where every direction implies a transformation.
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – numbered and signed by the artist (current availability: 19/20)
Canvas print €450
Photographic print A4 €180
Digital file bmp/png €380
Video file mp4 €260
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The Gift of Prometheus (2025)
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The title refers to the myth of Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods to give it to humanity and was punished for this act, chained and subjected to eternal torment.
In this case, fire is not only a natural element: it is the symbol of knowledge, creativity and the human capacity to transform the world.
Prometheus sacrifices himself to give knowledge to humanity. His gift therefore raises a question: to what extent are knowledge and creativity a form of liberation, and to what extent do they carry a responsibility that can be difficult to bear?
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – numbered and signed by the artist (current availability: 19/20)
Canvas print €450
Photographic print A4 €180
Digital file bmp/png €380
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Love – Lights and Shadows (2025)
Video
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Love is often described as harmony.
In reality it is also made of shifts, hesitations, accelerations and slowings.
Image and music move as in a waltz: a circular movement in which two presences must find the same rhythm.
When this happens a dance is born; when the rhythm is lost, tensions and misalignments inevitably emerge.
Lights and shadows both belong to the experience of love.
Not as opposites, but as part of the same movement.
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – numbered and signed by the artist
Canvas print €350
Photographic print A4 €120
Digital file bmp/png €300
Video file mp4 €260
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The Sirens’ Song – Swallowed by the Single Thought Current (2025)
Video
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The title already contains the essence of the work: the call of the sirens, both fascinating and dangerous.
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – numbered and signed by the artist
Canvas print €220
Photographic print A4 €80
Digital file bmp/png €180
Video file mp4 €360
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Fire in the Forest (2025)
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A web of lines gradually ignites until it suggests the idea of a fire moving through the forest.
Not a realistic description, but a vision that emerges from the encounter between mathematics, color and movement.
40×30 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – numbered and signed by the artist (current availability: 19/20)
Canvas print €400
Photographic print A4 €150
Digital file bmp/png €340
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Variations on a Theme by Mark Rothko (2025)
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This work is dedicated to Mark Rothko, a painter who explored for a long time the expressive possibilities of apparently simple chromatic fields.
In some of his paintings the color seems to vary almost imperceptibly within the same tonal range, generating a slow and profound vibration.
The image in this work arises from a similar idea: a structure that changes through minimal variations, as if color itself were the true protagonist.
Not a realistic description, but a vision born from the encounter between mathematics, color and movement.
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – numbered and signed by the artist
Canvas print €350
Photographic print A4 €120
Digital file bmp/png €300
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Dans le brouillard de la nuit (2025)
Video
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The title is deliberately in French: In the uncertain glow of the night.
There are moments when our path is not clearly illuminated. We move forward as if inside a fog, guided more by intuitions than by certainties.
The image arises precisely from this sensation: forms that appear and disappear, traces glimpsed for an instant before dissolving.
Perhaps it is not a matter of understanding everything, but of continuing to walk even when the road is not completely visible.
In this work image and sound remain deliberately essential. They do not tell a story nor propose a defined meaning, but open a perceptual space in which forms, colors and timbres can simply be received.
The experience of the work arises precisely in this direct encounter, where seeing and listening precede any attempt at interpretation.
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – Numbered and signed by the artist
Canvas print €350
Photographic print A4 €120
Digital file bmp/png €300
Video file mp4 €260 (current availability: 19/20)
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Illuminating Restlessness (2025)
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Not all restlessness is negative.
Sometimes what disturbs our usual balance becomes the beginning of a new understanding.
The image builds itself through tensions and contrasts that never reach a definitive stability.
It is precisely from this instability that unexpected zones of light emerge.
Restlessness, in this sense, is not only disorder: it can become a form of knowledge.
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – Numbered and signed by the artist (current availability: 18/20)
Canvas print €450
Photographic print A4 €180
Digital file bmp/png €380
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On War
War (2025)
Video
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War is an audiovisual work that translates the concept of conflict into an abstract and synesthetic structure.
The work explores the cyclical nature of violence, the loss of balance, and the constant tension between order and destruction.
The absence of narrative or historical references makes the conflict universal, transforming it into a perceptual and emotional experience rather than a descriptive one.
War does not represent an event: it makes it felt.
With its musically lacerating and enveloping atmospheres, the work does not intend to commemorate a tragic event while keeping the listener in an external and detached position.
On the contrary, the music emotionally involves the listener, projecting them into the very process in which the tragedy unfolds.
Listening does not observe: it participates, sharing a tension that develops over time without offering consolation or distance.
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – Numbered and signed by the artist
Canvas print €300
Photographic print A4 €100
Digital file bmp/png €250
Video file mp4 €400
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Colored Variations on a Theme from Guernica (2025)
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This work originates from a detail of Guernica by Pablo Picasso.
In the famous painting, color is almost completely absent: white, black and gray make the image even more dramatic and stripped down.
In these variations color returns, but not to soften the scene.
On the contrary, it becomes an additional element of tension, capable of transforming the violence of the image into an unstable and restless visual field.
This is not an attempt to reinterpret Picasso’s work, but to pass through its emotional echo using different visual tools.
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – Numbered and signed by the artist
canvas print €350
Photographic print A4 €120
Digital file bmp/png €300
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Voracity – When the Sword Fell Silent (2025)
Video
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The work takes its starting point from fragments of “Canto General” by Pablo Neruda, dedicated to the conquest and exploitation of his land.
Violence and commerce are placed in relation, showing how, once the time of weapons ends, the time of division begins.
The image makes this dynamic visible through a form of predation, in which a larger structure tends to engulf a smaller one.
Music and images proceed in parallel, sharing a sense of inevitability.
In the finale, the emergence of a clear and crystalline timbre introduces a sonic rarefaction that alludes to a stylization of economic value, leaving open the ambiguity between the end of calculation and inner emptiness.
Fragments from the text by Pablo Neruda:
Quando la spada ebbe tregua arrivò il mercante con la sua borsa
La terra andava da un signore all’altro, finchè tutta l’azzurra geografia fu spartita
E il mondo fu diviso fra Coca-Cola Inc, Anaconda, Ford Motors e altre società
La United Fruit Company si riservò la parte più succosa
Translation:
When the sword fell silent the merchant arrived with his bag
The land passed from one master to another until the entire blue geography was divided
And the world was divided among Coca-cola Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors and other companies
The United Fruit Company reserved for itself the juiciest part
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – Numbered and signed by the artist
Canvas print €450
Photographic print A4 €180
Digital file bmp/png €380
Video file mp4 €400 (disponibilità attuale 19/20)
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Freedom – Unbekannt (2025)
Video
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The work is inspired by events that took place in Berlin between 1960 and 1989, during the years of the city’s division.
In an area of West Berlin, several crosses bore the inscription *Unbekannt* (“Unknown”) and only the date of death, without any reference to name or birth.
The crosses commemorated people killed while attempting to cross the Wall from East Berlin. In several cases the identity of the victims was never established. Similar scenes occurred over the years in other parts of the city.
The work deliberately renounces music, replacing it with sounds and noises in order to avoid any form of emotional commentary or aestheticization.
As in Picasso’s Guernica, subtraction becomes an expressive choice: what remains is the testimony of a denied reality and of a memory that has remained without a name.
To the desperate unknown heroes
killed during their mad run
their hearts already beyond
the silent Wall
Sergio Pallante
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – Numbered and signed by the artist
Canvas print €350
Photographic print A4 €120
Digital file bmp/png €300
Video file mp4 €220
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Availability and Editions
The works presented on this site are available in the following formats:
- canvas print (limited edition: 20 copies)
- photographic print (limited edition: 30 copies)
- high-resolution digital file (limited edition: 20 copies)
- video (limited edition: 20 copies)
Each edition is strictly limited and will not be reproduced once the edition is sold out.
All works are original creations by Sergio Pallante.
Prints and digital files are produced in limited, numbered and signed editions.
Each purchase is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, signed by the artist, indicating the title of the work, year of creation, format, and number of the copy within the edition.
The musical, audiovisual and digital works are also registered with SIAE (Italian Society of Authors and Publishers).
To purchase a work or request further information, please contact the artist directly through the Contacts page.
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