Roberto Demarchi's artistic development began when he was relatively young, and was refined, from 1966 onwards, under the tutelage of the painter from Turin, Riccardo Chicco. His first exhibition was held in 1969 at the Cassiopea gallery in Turin.  Demarchi lectured on history of art while also working as an architect. Besides meditating more deeply on pre-Socratic thought, the painter’s work has been targeted above all on the oeuvre of the tragic poet Aeschylus and on the interpretation and representation of sacred themes  taken from the Old and New Testaments.