Pino Pinelli, among the protagonists of the “Analytical Painting” movement, distinguishing himself within it for the monochromaticity of his works, died yesterday at the age of 85 in his home in Milan, the city that welcomed him in 1968, when he was thirty he had his first solo show at the Bergamini Gallery.
Born in Catania on 1 October 1938, Pinelli began his luminous career in the Seventies, just like his painting, which made him join the movement theorized by Filberto Menna as “Analytical Painting” in the Seventies. In his artistic research, the shapes and materials were transformed while always remaining rigorously consistent with their own aniconicity: Pinelli invented a mixed technique, resulting from various amalgamated materials which, covered with glazes of paint, took on the appearance of a sensually tactile “pictorial skin”. , almost like velvet.
Pinelli has held more than one hundred personal exhibitions in Italian and international museums and cultural institutions. Pinelli said: “Art is seduction and fascination. It is an invitation to the aesthetic dimension of the gaze and the tactile vertigo of the sense. My fragments are restless bodies of painting projected into space, which fluctuate in small and large formations and bear signs of a anxious plasticity and a visual happiness of a color pulsating with luminous vibrations”.
