Roberto Piaia

Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori

Roberto Piaia

a cura di Paolo Levi

A never before published voyage through the art of the painter Roberto Piaia from Pieve di Soligo (Treviso) and leader of Assurfivo, an artistic movement that unites abstract, surrealistic and figurative art. Assurfivo is what the artist named the gallery in Turin. Paolo Levi, curator of this book, accompanies the reader inside the complex visual universe of Piaia, where cycles of works characterized by different visual approaches and changeable stylistic experimentations alternate. Women are a reoccurring subject of Piaia’s paintings, defined by Paolo Levi as “… a kind of carnal divinity drawn with meticulous precision, a messenger of an Eros so explicit as to be disturbing…”.