Creator
Luigi Serafini
Title
Codex Seraphinianus
Coverage
New York, NY
Publisher
Rizzoli
Date
2021. 40th anniversary revised edition, first published in 1981 by F. M. Ricci in Milan
Description
Serafini, an Italian architect, artist, designer, created this visual encyclopedia drawn from his imagination written in an imaginary language known as asemic. Very much a product of the “Information Age,” the book addresses coding in genetics as well as in literature. The volume is filled with surreal hand-drawn illustrations of fantastic images ranging from flora to history to physics. In this image of the Rosetta Stone, the script leads to another unknown language without any decipherment.
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