Roberto Roberti Biography
Roberto Roberti was born in Padua in 1942 and was an active artist from the second half of the 1960s. He began exhibiting in 1965 in Bologna, and the following year he held his first solo exhibition at the Michelangeli Gallery in Orvieto and at the Palazzo del Popolo in Ascoli Piceno. In 1969 he exhibited the personal exhibition "Work in progress: history of a community" at the Carbonesi Gallery in Bologna, then at the Cortina Gallery in Cortina d'Ampezzo. He continued to exhibit with personal exhibitions until 1973, then he interrupted his exhibition activity.
His personal exhibitions resumed in 1980, with an exhibition at the Galleria Ferrari in Verona. He continued to exhibit with personal exhibitions, including those in 1987 at the Church of San Domenico in Fano, 1990 at the Galleria Bianca Pilat in Milan, 1991 at the Banca Popolare di Milano in Rome and 1999 at the Liceo Tito Livio in Padua. He has also participated in many collective exhibitions and important events.
Roberti taught Artistic Anatomy at the Brera Academy in Milan. His painting has been defined as "surrealist", in which reality and dreams combine. In the initial works the colors are bright and the backgrounds are precisely delimited, but the constituent elements are not easily readable, generating a feeling of restlessness and ambiguity. In subsequent works, an interpenetration of the corporeal and the invisible emerges, where dimensions and spatial coordinates are abolished and a sensation of unreality dominates. The subjects of his works are above all female nudes and then objects and their traces, rendered in soft and nuanced tones.