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Gioacchino Pontrelli
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Italy
• 1966
Biography
The artist was born in Salerno (Italy) in 1966. He lives and works in Rome.
Gioacchino Pontrelli's research aims at rewriting objects and images that live and define the present-day world. The rewriting is done through painting, as painting is able to alter and redefine the codes and the ways contemporaneity is percevied and consumed.
Using alternately traditional colours, industrial paints and synthetic pigments, Gioacchino Pontrelli's paintings aims at revising hybrid and standardized images of the mass culture in private landscapes, more mental than physical, full of a strong psychological and emotional component.
His painting is suspended between figuration and abstraction, between a visionary and slightly anxiety-inducing hyperrealism and a spontaneous but aware and balanced gestural expressiveness.