Pino Pinelli (Catania, 1938 - Milan, 2024)
Pino Pinelli was born in Catania in 1938. In the early 1960s, he moved to Milan, where he met artists such as Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Giovanni Colombo, Agostino Bonalumi, and Enrico Castellani. In 1968, he held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria Bergamini.
In the early 1970s, Pinelli developed the "Topologies" series and the "Monochromes" series: these works are characterized by a dynamic rendering of the painting's surface, almost in motion. These experiences place him in the artistic movement of the "Analytical Painting."
While in the first phase of his career, the artist mainly created large canvases, from 1975 onwards, Pinelli reduced the size of his works. In the same year, at the "Empirica" exhibition held in Rimini, the artist performed his first tear on the canvas: Pinelli clearly distanced himself from the concept of the painting and painted surface.
Pinelli’s painting offers a perspective in constant movement; his is a painting that seeks to inhabit space, interact with it, and with those who inhabit it. Based on this concept, Pinelli began the "Disseminations" period, in which the painting, spread in heterogeneous forms and ways, was directly placed on the wall.
