James Kalm visits the exhibition Sandro Chia: Sator Arepo at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, on view through May 25, 2014.

In the video Kalm talks to Sandro Chia about the series of "intimate gem like works on paper that the artist has laboured on for years." From the gallery press release: "Realized on small sheets with watercolor, pastel and other media, Chia’s vibrant colors, cubist spaces and expressive draftsmanship appropriate, echo and send up romantic figures of art history including Carlo Carra, Matisse, Chagall, Picasso and Courbet. His imagery often draws upon classic mythology and makes references to antiquity… Chia presents painting as a magic alchemical language, able to give voice to man’s inexplicable search for meaning."