Dep Art Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition "Pino Pinelli. Being a poet with a single word. Painting from the 1970s to the Present" curated by Federico Sardella, conceived with the artist, and realized in collaboration with the Archivio Pino Pinelli.

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 journey, from the first monochrome experiments of the 1970s to the famous "broken rectangle" that marked the main turning point in his investigation, to the large disseminations and the most recent works, some of which have never been presented before.

Pino Pinelli dedicated over fifty years of research to painting and color, exploring their possibilities, variations, and potentials, without ever straying from the original intuition and creating a method whose analytical premises have never wavered.

Always described and included in the trend defined by Filiberto Menna as "Analytical Painting," his work, although evidently linked to the more traditional painting, ventures into an area that also involves 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 stated: "My work is composed of multiple elements: the sense is manifold, as there is a problem of gradation - that is, a slow transformation of the initial data (color) -; 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); the poetics of materials - the works are of reduced proportions, pure intentionality; I attempt a visual filling of intentionality."