Codex Seraphinianus

Luigi Serafini's 1981 illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world — written in an invented script that has never been decoded — one of the most extraordinary art objects of the 20th century.

Creates a wholly autonomous visual world with its own internal logic — the Codex Seraphinianus is simultaneously a museum of surrealist biology, physics, and culture and a meditation on the limits of language and knowledge.