BIO

Andrea Chessa was born in Tempio Pausania in 1972 and graduated from his hometown’s State Art School. In 2001, he moved to Milan, where he obtained his first and second level Academic Diplomas and a two-year specialization in Theory and Practice of Artistic Therapy at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.

A multifaceted and industrious artist, designer, and sculptor, he works across a variety of expressive mediums. He has to his credit a relevant exhibition activity in Pavia, Milan, Florence, Bergamo, Krizevci (Croatia), Verona, Grosseto, Venice, Nuremberg, Calpe, etc., and has participated in prestigious residencies: Betanzos (Spain) and Manchester (UK). 

He was the winner of many competitions, including the “Costantino Nivola Regional Sculpture Award” and the “Pavia-Giovane Arte Europea” International Art Award. Valuable was his collaboration in the studios of important artists, including: Arnaldo Pomodoro, Ugo La Pietra, and Turi Simeti, where for two years he was the only assistant in the artist’s studio in Milan.

Since 2012, he has lived and worked between Sardinia, Spain, and Germany. He collaborates with the Local Health Authority (ASL) No. 2 in Olbia, leading Art Therapy workshops at the Mental Health Center. He also teaches art and image, drawing, and art history in schools in his province.

He explores themes related to myth, the sacred, the profane, and references to agro-pastoral atmospheres in relation to the dimension of space as a place of presence, to rebuild a relationship through work. Materials: iron, wool, copper, and cement are used by the artist to define a new field, in the ongoing dialogue between matter and memory, towards something as yet undefined, to-be done.