Andrea Festa presents Estudos, the first solo exhibition in Italy by Brazilian painter Pedro Liñares, held at Sala Nova. The exhibition br ings together a constellation of oil -on-paper works that illuminate the intimate, of ten unseen foundation of the artist’s practice: the study as a site of inquiry, rehearsal, and revelation. Produced across different moments and geographies, these pieces trace the evolving vocabulary of Liñares’ painterly language. Far from preparatory footnotes, they are autonomous spaces where ideas emerge wi th immediacy and candor — where composition, gesture, and color unfold before cer tainty sets in. 

Created in dialogue with the daily routines of the studio, frequently alongside the priming and preparation of canvases, these works embody the fluid, instinctive thinking that precedes finished form.  Paper, for Liñares, is a thinking ground: a surface that encourages risk, looseness, quiet reflect ion, and sudden discovery. The studies capture a cognit ive rhythm — a testing of st uctures, the calibrat ion of palette, an openness to accident and improvisation. Through them, painting becomes both method and meditation, a negot iat ion between intuition and analysis, between the mater ial demands of oil and the conceptual clarity it seeks to reach.