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Pino Pinelli

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b. 1938, Italy

The Italian artist Pino Pinelli is known for his minimalistic, sometimes large-scale installations which challenge and alter the traditional idea of painting.

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Pino Pinelli was in 1938 born in Catania, Sicily. In the 1960s, the artist moved to Milan, attracted by the great artistic and cultural turmoil that occurred at that time around essential figures of Italian post-war art such as Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Enrico Castellani. Inspired by these slightly older Zero artists, Pinelli created artworks that capture and embody the desire of the era to change the existence of traditional painting.

Experimenting with new solutions that he could use for the surface of paintings, Pino explored geometry, shape and colour, and at the same time analysed the relationship between the artist and the artwork. Body of art that emerged from these experiments were his large-scale mixed media geometric forms made from predominantly primary colours. In such way, Pinelli managed to eliminate the presence of the canvas in its usual form.

Pino Pinelli's first exhibition took place in 1968 at Galleria Bergamini in Milan. Since then, his work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo shows, not only in Italy, but also internationally in France at Galerie Lil'Orsay and Galerie Chantal Crousel-Svennung in Paris, and in Germany at Galerie Neuendorf in Frankfurt. Other important exhibitions include the ones held at the Institute of Italian Culture in London, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, and the participation at the Venice Biennale in 1987 and 1997. Pino Pinelli currently lives and works in Milan, Italy.

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Recent Exhibitions

Contemporary art exhibition, Group Exhibition, In the matter of color at Dep Art Gallery, Milan, Italy Closed 20 May–31 July 2020 Group Exhibition In the matter of color
Contemporary art exhibition, Pino Pinelli, Monochrome (1973–1976) – Color as destiny and as Prophecy at Dep Art Gallery, Milan, Italy Closed 20 June–21 September 2019 Pino Pinelli Monochrome (1973–1976) – Color as destiny and as Prophecy

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The space of painting: 'Pittura,' Pino Pinelli's solo exhibition Related Press The space of painting: 'Pittura,' Pino Pinelli's solo exhibition 23 May 2016, Randian

“I cannot possibly understand those artists who place themselves in front of the canvas as if it was a surface to be filed up with colors and shapes, following a taste that is more or less appreciable. They trace out a sign, walk a few steps back, look carefully at what the have just done, bend their head, half close their eyes, then jump...

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Pino Pinelli In Video & Audio

In the Matter of Color | Dep Art Gallery Milan Related Video & Audio In the Matter of Color | Dep Art Gallery Milan 12 June 2020, Dep Art Gallery Fade out copy. View More
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Pino Pinelli In Publications

In the matter of color In the matter of color Addamiano, Biasi, Pinelli, Simeti
Pino PINELLI Pino PINELLI Monochrome (1973–1976). Color as destiny and as prophecy
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