Dear Sery,
the sense of a poetic vision of things and of the existence of a caring and mindful concern towards what surrounds you, is what perhaps even more than your art of painting has mostly interested and convinced me. Indeed, it is always pleasant and gratifying to witness a sincere vocation being born: to understand the psychological mechanisms, the driving emotional forces that, at the very sources of expression, determine the desire and, I would dare say, the need to paint.
This is why, aside from a discussion that could even be started up regarding the means and the stylistic elements, which are not at all trivial, that you have now acquired - the colour used in a strongly emotional sense, the intimate adherence of the whole pictorial setting to a revisited “supernaturalism” without literary or contrived concerns, the confident taste of the image you choose and build with delicate vigour – I have preferred to send you these few words that are not a "presentation" yet, but are intended to be something different and more: that is the proof of a conviction.
The conviction that I have found in you not the evanescent and temporary talent of an amateur, although very skilful, artist but the complex problematic and the constant and patient research of a real artist.
When someone has this approach of substantial seriousness, of real commitment I believe that everything becomes not easier but certainly more pertinent, more interesting and higher.
Therefore I do not need to express my best wishes to you: your present work already has all the conditions for your future success.
Giorgio Seveso - June 1971
On the occasion of a personal exhibition in Milan
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