Roberto Chessa's Intuitive Painting Exhibition in Cagliari

The Fondazione per l'Arte Bartoli Felter in Cagliari hosts a solo exhibition of Roberto Chessa (born 1978 in Nuoro), curated by Chiara Manca, featuring around eighty works of various sizes. Chessa's paintings are characterized by rigorous geometric and schematic sculptural forms, with sharp, spiky structures that appear recognizable yet disorienting. Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures devoid of decoration stand against empty, timeless spaces, emphasizing form and shadow. The artist draws from the three-dimensionality of urban graffiti culture, with constructivist memories and intuitions close to the Second Futurism. His work serves as a metaphor for a collapsing society afflicted by tensions and isolation. Chessa states, "I live painting as an intuition." The exhibition aims to instill doubts and uncertainties, provoking feelings of bewilderment while suggesting a direction toward a reality that must be recomposed.