These two exhibitions of work by Pino Pinelli traced his development from the mid ’70s to the present. In monochrome, Pinelli has found a condition for redefining painting critically. For him, as for most other analytical painters, the reduction to a single color is equivalent to the elimination of subjectivity, but in Pinelli’s work the chromatic values are radically mitigated, because his intentions are focused on the construction of a pictorial event. The manual quality of the work is evident: colors are made visible through the application of several coats of paint, while the complete