Pino Pinelli

1938, Catania, Italy

Pino Pinelli is among the most significant figures in Italian contemporary art, known for his radical reflection on painting as gesture, presence and fragment. After beginnings tied to Informalism and minimalism, Pinelli developed a deeply personal language that dematerialises the traditional painting, freeing it from the frame and from canonical space.

Through his celebrated "pictorial fragments" - vibrant forms that gather on the wall in chromatic, tactile constellations - the artist explores the concepts of absence, energy and the identity of the pictorial act. Colour, dense and sensual, is the absolute protagonist. His works have been exhibited in major Italian and international museums, and his research remains at the centre of intense critical and curatorial attention.

With Pittura Bl. V. Bl., Pino Pinelli articulates a composition in three elements, where colour becomes matter and rhythm. Two surfaces of intense blue embrace a bright green module: the pigments, applied with a repeated, undulating gesture, build up in layers to form a pulsing relief.
This is not a classic triptych, but a pictorial event that spreads through space like a chromatic echo. The "painting" is no longer a fixed physical perimeter, but a perceptual experience that draws the viewer in, inviting exploration of the interval, the energy between the forms.
Colour does not represent: it happens. And in happening, it holds a spiritual and sensual dimension, a tension toward the invisible. Like many of Pinelli's works, this one too expresses a subtle balance between rigour and vibration, order and intuition.