Milan, at the Giuseppe Iannaccone Foundation the exhibition of the young Roberto de Pinto

On Saturday, November 9, 2024, the Giuseppe Iannaccone Foundation in Milan will inaugurate Io che ti guardo nascosto e commosso, the tenth installment of the IN PRATICA project featuring artist Roberto de Pinto (Terlizzi, 1996) in an exhibition that can be visited from November 9, 2024 to February 14, 2025, curated by Daniele Fenaroli. The IN PRACTICE project offers the space of Studio Legale Iannaccone e Associati to a young emerging artist, involving him in a process similar to the “practice” that lawyers carry out at the beginning of their career, giving him the opportunity to confront works by already established international artists and part of the Collection.

The protagonist of de Pinto’s works is a sort of alter-ego of the artist, a sometimes mustachioed character obsessively portrayed in more or less fictitious situations: standing, lying down, relaxed, posed or taken by surprise, in the details of his skin or concealed in the form of a flower. Author and model at the same time, the artist discovers himself through the reproduction of a character who resembles him and gradually becomes self-aware. With an ambiguous and erotically charged pictorial action, the artist generates a subject and an object, surreptitiously and with great emotion observing his own individuality.

De Pinto’s works dialogue with modern and contemporary works from the Giuseppe Iannaccone Collection, which the artist has chosen in thematic and emotional continuity with his subjects: Filippo de Pisis ’ 1940 The Flute Player, in which the artist portrays a man inside his studio, a model and a lover, a body onto which the painter projected desires and passions; Nicole Eisenman ’s 2007 Beasley Street, in which the archetypal painter looks surreptitiously toward a square symbolic of the human kaleidoscope, as if he could not find in his studio and the model in front of him the right inspiration. Finally, Dana Schutz ’s Reclining nude from 2022, in which the last man left on a desert island is held captive by the artist, herself a prisoner of her own inability to restrain her instinct to portray him. The portrayal of a character who is part self-portrait and part mask reflects the highly topical theme of the tension between appearing and being oneself, revealing the Giuseppe Iannaccone Foundation’s tension to promote a conception of art as a means of reading contemporaneity. The exhibition is accompanied by an artist’s book published by Allemandi entirely made with recycled materials and sustainable ways, confirming the Foundation’s attention to environmental issues. The exhibition is part of the celebration of ten years of activity of the Contemporary Art Foundations Committee, on the occasion of which the organization is promoting a cycle of exhibitions in collaboration with the Academies of Fine Arts.

Notes on the artist

Born in Terlizzi in 1996, after receiving his first and second level academic degrees from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, he opened in the Lucerna space at Le Dictateur Studio (Milan) his first solo show in 2023 after having already been in group exhibitions at Triennale (Milan), ArtNoble Gallery (Milan), Match Gallery (Ljubljana), Sanctuary of Hercules the Winner (Tivoli), Ordet (Milan), Galerie Mazzoli (Berlin), Casa Testori (Novate Milanese) and Spazio Favilla (Cervia). In 2022 he was a finalist for the Francesco Fabbri Prize and in 2023 a finalist for the Cairo Prize. In September 2024 he made the palio of the Rivincita della quintana in Foligno.

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Milan, at the Giuseppe Iannaccone Foundation the exhibition of the young Roberto de Pinto

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