In the Labyrinth (of Borges)
My painting In the Labyrinth (of Borges) is inspired by the short story The House of Asterion by Jorge Luis Borges, in which the Minotaur—a mythological figure often seen as an executioner—is humanized through his fears, fragility, and desire for redemption. The absence of resistance, the refusal to fight, and the surrender to death become, for him, the only path to freedom.
Here the Minotaur is depicted as a man, kneeling in submission, rejecting the logic of violence and conflict. Traces of the mythological creature emerge in the tendrils of taurine horns at the bottom of the painting and in the faint arc above his head. His legs lose their human form, appearing more ethereal and undefined through the rust, reinforcing the sense of transformation and sacrifice.
Sabatino Cersosimo
Sabatino Cersosimo was born in 1974 in Turin, where he graduated in Decoration at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, after completing high school studies in graphic advertising techniques. His professional journey includes the restoration of books and paper materials, journalism, high school education, and educational museum tours. Sabatino lives in Berlin since 2011.
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 career of the Turin-born artist.
Other exhibitions have been held in Germany, Italy, Spain, England, Belgium, the Netherlands, South Corea, and his works are collected in Europe, Russia, the USA, Australia, and Taiwan.
