SER
COMICS SPECULATIONS DRAWING
SER fka Stefano Ser(T) Togni is a cartoonist and multidisciplinary artist that works between the fields of architecture, philosophy and graphics.
Likes: crates, diagramming, abandoned (imaginary) places, blatant eclectic speculation, convoluted phantasies, low-budget experimentation, composition, interfaces. His comics seems pretty influenced by that. In the confusion of the universe all, sometimes things bring him to collaborate with micropublishers and collectives, mimic curatorship for promoting fellow artists and comics, and also occasionally help his friends in some interesting crossmedial art projects.
Features and collaboration with: Lumpen Projects, Wobby Magazine, LUSTR Praga, CTRL Magazine, Bergamo Film Meeting, Casa Hooligan, Giallorenzo + LaTempesta, Costello’s, Dischisotterranei, co_atto.
If you need some more formal presentation of my persona, do not hesitate: run and type stefano.togni@gmail.com and I’ll send you something that will surely be more acceptable.
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Selected works
Curator of the Comics section of the Bergamo International Film Meeting, 2019-ongoing.
Installation hosted by LUSTR illustration festival in Prague, 2023. Feature in Wobby Magazine #34, 2023.
Il Tempo è Finito exhibition, curated by Casa Hooligan collective c/o Sonic Belligeranza Megastore Bologna, 2022.
Artwork and visual identity for SUPER SOFT RESET, musical album by Giallorenzo published by La Tempesta Dischi, 2022.
in_festa collective exhibition, curated by co_atto c/o passante Porta Garibaldi Milano, 2021.
Selfpublished book on sandwiches titled “La Tecnica del Tramezzino: Trattato Georomantico intorno all’Etereo Non-dolce”, 2020.
Collaboration with architectural firm Armature Globale, 2019-20.
Selected press
ENG Feature in Standard Deviation Magazine by Lumpen Project , with an interview and in the cover design, 2021.
ENG Mentioned in the top 10 of the Puchi Award prize, with La Tecnica del Tramezzino, 2021.
ENG “Boxes we live in”, newsletter entry hosted by Federico Rebecchini Representations of Architecture, 2021.
ITA Video interview with Fabio Kenobit Bortolotti, 2021.
ITA Critical essay by Marta Sironi about ZZYZX, 2021.
Posters for concerts and events in Cremona, Milano e Bergamo, made for booking agency Thc Events. UNOAUNO, 2020, ink and digital drawing.
SCIGAZE, 2023, ink and digital drawing.
SAAM, 2020, ink charcoal and digital drawing. Giallorenzo, 2019, ink charcoal and digital drawing. Rejoyce/rejoice, 2019, ink charcoal and digital drawing.
ZZYZX, 2021, ink charcoal and digital drawing.
Extra large 4-panel comics strip, permanently hosted in Milano Porta Garibaldi station, through art collective co_atto. Explicit mentions are made to: journey, estrangement, death, rebirth and sickness, ZZYZX California, Zoroastrism, sky burial practices, avatars and Porta Garibaldi station.
Paranoidin, 2023, ink charcoal and digital drawing. Feature in Wobby Magazine 34.
IPE, 2023, poster installation, black tape and cardboards. Part of LUSTR comics festival exhibition in Prague.
Images from the exbition and photos of the IPE fanzine that collects the stories exhibited.
IPE, 2023, ink charcoal and digital drawing. Two pages from the stories Horror of Symmetry and RNG. IPE is an exercise in concept engineering.
La Tecnica del Tramezzino (The Sandwich Guide), 2020, 64pp. comicbook, selfpublished.
In The Sandwich Guide: a Georomantic Essay through the Ethereal Un-candy, the sandwich is an excuse to talk about anything that’s not a sandwich. It is an overcomplicating and contradictory discourse on different registers, such as critical theory, logical mysticism, fanzine, cooking manual and non-fictional comics.
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The section proposed here is the starting point of the treatise, in which synthetically and narratively the discovery (or invention?) of the sandwich is presented to the reader.
“SER’s book is the byproduct of a mad and reckless mind game”. Review of the book in Sticky Drama newsletter.
This book was mentioned in the top 10 of the Puchi Awards Prize 2021
Images of the 2023 fanzine End Serenade #3: delusional flower.
Super Soft Reset, 2022, ink and digital drawing.
Packaging design and comic made for the italian band Giallorenzo, together with the s/t album release. Produced by laTempesta Records.
Rock Mecha
Nova: Forse non è essenziale, 2023, ink charcoal and digital drawing.
Design and artistic direction of musical album by Nova band.
Production curated by Costello’s Agency
HI-FI, 2020, ink charcoal and digital drawing. Illustration for article, newsletter and playlist by the music label Dischi Sotterranei.
Kriminal, 2022, ink and charcoal.
Entry for the exhibition about classic italian comic characters @ Bricòla 2022 c/o Wow Museum, Milan.
La Tana, 2023, ink and digital drawing.
Illustration made for the eponymous short story by Marco Peluso, published in Gelo Magazine
Finesert, 2023, digital drawing and foiled print. Collab with artist Finepiano (Riccardo Lameri).
Drawing made for Standard Deviation exhibition in Family Store Brighton, organized by Lumpen Project Nihilanth, 2022, charcoal.
CNC Bent Peril, 2022, ink and charcoal. Entry for the exhibition Il Tempo è Finito @ DJ Balli’s Sonic Belligeranza Mega Store, organized by Casa Hooligan collective
Mother Box, 2020, ink and charcoal.
Illustration realized for the social campaign #kirby4thworldparty20.
Holocrons, 2022, ink charcoal and digital colors. Illustration realized for the social campaign #starwarstheparty22.
SER Stefano Togni 3387434536 togniser.com stefano.togni@gmail.com