The third appointment of the Dep Art Out exhibition season in Ceglie Messapica - summer venue of the Dep Art Gallery in Milan - is dedicated to the work of Pino Pinelli (Catania 1938). On Wednesday 23 August 2023, from 7 to 9 p.m., the Sicilian artist is the protagonist of an evening-event curated by Lorenzo Madaro, organised in collaboration with the Archivio Pino Pinelli.

Dep Art Out is a place where art manifests itself in an innovative way. The trullo, an icon of Apulia recognised throughout the world, becomes an extraordinary exhibition space, immersed in the countryside between Ceglie Messapica and Martina Franca.

Pino Pinelli is an artist capable of transforming the epidermal essence of his forms and of indulging the plural aptitudes of matter, experimenting with different techniques from time to time. A nucleus of works made of ceramic - the protagonists of this exhibition focus in Ceglie Messapica - on the one hand confirms the complexity of his aniconic linguistic interests, and on the other his aptitude for the different metamorphoses - tactile and seductive - of the material itself, which is one of the cornerstones of all his research that has made him one of the noble fathers of Italian art in the second half of the 20th century.

"Ceramics," the artist told curator Lorenzo Madaro in a recent conversation, "in the past has been considered an art of edge, when in fact it can give you flavours that other materials cannot". Thus the works on display reveal the intrinsic strength of "a private treasure", as the artist defines it, because they belong to an apparently misunderstood area of his work. Rarely, in fact, have Pinelli's ceramic works been exhibited. They also represent a page intimately linked to the genius loci of his homeland, Sicily, to which, despite his intense experience in Milan for more than half a century, he has always remained very attached. It is no coincidence that at the entrance to his studio in Milan he has installed some fragments of Sicilian ceramics: a reminder, but also a note of identity. The exhibition is - to use the master's own words - 'a journey towards new discoveries', also thanks to the dialogue between the primordial material of the architecture of the trulli and the refined archaicness of the forms moulded by Pinelli.

Pino Pinelli. CERAMICS
curated by Lorenzo Madaro
23 August 2023
In collaboration with Archivio Pino Pinelli
Event sponsored by the Department of Culture of the City of Ceglie Messapica

Video Fabio Mantegna
Editing Pietro Bazzoli
Soundtrack Marco Borsetti

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