Dep Art Gallery traces the artistic evolution of Pino Pinelli

Milan ’s Dep Art Gallery announces the exhibition Pino Pinelli. You Can Be a Poet with a Single Word. Painting from the 1970s to the Present, which can be visited from September 17, 2024 to January 25, 2025, curated by Federico Sardella and realized in collaboration with the Pino Pinelli Archive. Through the exhibition, Dep Art Gallery, ten years after the first exhibition dedicated to the artist, pays tribute to Pino Pinelli (Catania, 1938 - 2024). The review traces the evolution of his artistic career, from the monochrome experiments of the 1970s, to the famous “broken rectangle” that marked the main turning point in his investigation, up to the great disseminations and more recent works. Pino Pinelli has dedicated more than fifty years of research to painting and color, exploring its declinations and potentialities. Always described and included in the trend defined by art historian Filiberto Menna as “Analytical Painting,” his work trespasses into a sphere that also concerns relief and consequently three-dimensionality, so much so that his works appear as fragments of an infinite palette, magmatic and pulsating.

“My work is composed of multiple elements: the meaning is multiple, in that there is a problem of gradient-that is, of slow transformation of the initial datum (color)-in the work; 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, is transformed); the poetics of materials - the works are of reduced proportions, pure intentionality; I attempt a visual filling of intentionality,” the artist argues.

A bilingual (Italian and English) volume will be published on the occasion of the exhibition, the contents of which were evaluated and agreed upon with the artist himself in the weeks before his passing. There will also be an in-depth study by Sara Uboldi, who proposes a novel reading of the work through neuroaesthetics, and a contribution by Lorenzo Madaro dedicated to ceramic production. The book is enriched by a recounting over ten years of assiduous collaboration between Pino Pinelli, Antonio Addamiano and Dep Art Gallery, also presenting events proposed in public and private spaces in Italy and abroad, such as Palazzo Reale and Gallerie d’Italia in Milan and MAMM in Moscow.

Dep Art Gallery traces the artistic evolution of Pino Pinelli

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