Roberto Cafarotti - Scusa

Roberto Cafarotti (Rome, 1978)


Work from the cycle “Fragilismo Contemporaneo”
 Oil on canvas, 50 × 40 cm


Signed bottom right: RCafarotti

This intense work belongs to the artist’s more intimate and urgently human strand: Contemporary Fragility, a painterly style Cafarotti developed from 2025 as the “guardian of infant vulnerability.” Through delicate figures, dreamlike atmospheres rich in symbols, the artist explores the fragility of the human being in an adult world often indifferent or hostile.
In the painting, a young female figure lies in a pose of abandonment on a surreal beach at sunset or beneath a large moon. The body, wrapped in a blue and green drape, conveys a sense of emotional exhaustion and exposed innocence. Around her, everyday and symbolic objects — empty bottles, a hat, a palette with colors, small cubes and pennants (including one recalling France) — create an atmosphere of a interrupted picnic or a precarious refuge after a game ended badly. In the background, a coastal landscape with distant buildings and a cloud-filled sky gives depth and melancholy to the scene.
The work masterfully fuses figurative realism, surreal elements and the strong emotional charge typical of Cafarotti’s Fragilismo: the child (or adolescent), or children, become a universal metaphor for contemporary vulnerability, inviting the viewer not to look away from the fragility that inhabits each of us.
Technical features:
* Technique: Oil on high-quality canvas
* Dimensions: 50 × 40 cm (unframed)
* Signature: Autograph at bottom right
* Condition: Perfect (recent work)
* Certificate of authenticity: Yes, issued by the artist

Ideal work for collectors of Italian figurative contemporary art, lovers of symbolic realism and movements that fuse emotional storytelling and social reflection. A representative piece of Cafarotti’s most recent and personal path, Roberto Cafarotti, a nuclear engineer and a versatile artist with growing international recognition.