Sabatino Cersosimo was born in 1974 in Turin, where he graduated in Decoration from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, after completing his advanced studies in advertising graphics. His professional career includes book and paper restoration, higher education, and museum education. Cersosimo has lived in Berlin since 2011, where he began painting in oil on steel using oxidation. Since then, the concepts of time, will, and chance have been fundamental to the entire process of his artistic work. Given the degenerative nature of oxidation, Cersosimo's work draws a parallel with life itself: we are born, we grow, and we mature. Art is historically considered eternal, but these paintings emphasize its metamorphic nature: we are observing a work of art that develops, stratifies, and, in some cases, mutates into other forms, just like the elements of nature on the planet. His painted figures, appearing fragmented and evanescent, elaborate emotions and dilemmas, reflecting constellations of humanity in small particles. They thus present many of the commonalities among human beings, beyond culture, language, gender, and race. In his paintings, bodies blend with rust; certain elements are missing, as in ancient frescoes. But unlike these, where time has erased parts, in Cersosimo's paintings, the incomplete has never been present, in a context where illusion dialogues with the physicality of paint and metal. Between November 2023 and January 2024, Cersosimo exhibited at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin with the show "The Vanishing Bodies," a significant moment in the Turin-born artist's career. Other exhibitions have been held in Germany, Italy, Spain, England, Belgium, and the Netherlands; his works are collected in Europe, Russia, the USA, Australia, and Taiwan.