Dep Art Gallery presents the exhibition “Pino Pinelli. You can be a poet with just one word. Painting from the Seventies to today”, curated by Federico Sardella, conceived with the artist and created in collaboration with the Pino Pinelli Archive. The exhibition can be visited until January 25, 2025.
With this exhibition, Dep Art Gallery, ten years after the first exhibition dedicated to the artist, pays homage to Pino Pinelli, who passed away on April 30, 2024, at the age of 86. The exhibition retraces the evolution of his artistic career, from the first monochrome experiments of the Seventies, to the famous “broken rectangle” that marked the main turning point in his investigation, up to the great disseminations and
to the most recent works, some of which have never been presented before.
Pino Pinelli has dedicated over fifty years of research to painting and color, exploring their possibilities, declinations and potential, without ever departing from his original intuition and giving life to a method whose analytical premises have never failed.
Always described and included in that trend defined by Filiberto Menna as “Analytical Painting”, his work, although evidently linked to more traditional painting, borders on a field that also concerns relief and consequently three-dimensionality, so much so that his works appear as fragments of an infinite, magmatic and pulsating palette.
As the artist himself claims: “My work is co
composed of several elements: the meaning is multiple, as in the work there is a problem of gradient – that is, of slow transformation of the initial data (colour) -; a problem of interaction with the wall (passive recipient), for a total relationship; a problem of tactility – transgression of the
material (unprepared canvas that betrays the canvas itself, transforms itself); the poetics of materials – the works are of reduced proportions, pure intentionality; I attempt a visual filling of intentionality.”
On the occasion of the exhibition, a bilingual volume (Italian and English) will be published, the contents of which were evaluated and agreed upon with the artist himself in the weeks preceding his death. In addition to the essay by Federico Sardella, which places the artist’s work in contemporaneity, through a series of suggestions and formal analogies, there will be an in-depth analysis by Sara Uboldi, who proposes an original reading of the work through neuroaesthetics, and a contribution by Lorenzo Madaro dedicated to ceramic production.
The book is further enriched by a conversation between Pino Pinelli, Federico Sardella and Antonio Addamiano, collected and recorded at the artist’s home, and a dialogue with Alessandra Pinelli focused on the history of the archive and its operating methods. The publication recounts over ten years of assiduous collaboration between Pino Pinelli, Antonio Addamiano and Dep Art Gallery, also presenting the major events proposed in public and private spaces, in Italy and abroad, such as Palazzo Reale and the Gallerie d’Italia in Milan and the MAMM in Moscow.
Carlo Franza