To penetrate into the unspeakable of the vision, beyond the avant-garde and its derivations is the assumption that recalls the works of Pietro Finelli (Montesarchio, 1957) now on display.

Exhibited 7 paintings, 4 drawings, 2 videos, all dated 2020-2021. The art works are the point of arrival and a question about the dynamic consciousness of art.

Following the common thread of his research - for years now inspired by the imagery of classic film noir of the 1940s and 1950s – Finelli works on images, captures and transfigures single frames into painting "whose center of gravity is fundamental", in the words of Roland Barthes (L'obvie et l'obtus. Essais critique III. 1982, Éditions du Seuil, Paris), “it moves inside the fragment, in the elements included in the image itself”. In the correspondence between painting and cinema, the frame eliminates the constraint of filmic time, freeing itself from any reference and living a new life.

The paintings on display as Noir LXXXI, oil on canvas, 129X99 cm, 2021; Noir LXXXII, oil on canvas, cm99X130, 2021 are characterized by a quite small palette and by wide and flat backgrounds that cool the pictorial scene by placing shadows and a glossy and velvety darkness at the center of the composition. Images that engage a dialogic relationship with the viewer by leading him into bourgeois homes - between set tables and soft armchairs - that make him feel like an intruder, stumbled upon unknown existences. On the occasion of the opening, the work Chef d'œuvre - Voyage au bout de la nuit - oil on canvas, cm 138X188, 2020, will be the setting for a performance that follows those already created by the artist on the occasion of his solo shows at the Muzeul

National de Istorie in Moldovei, Chisinau (2018) and at the KCCC Klaipėda Culture Communication Center, Lithuania (2019).

On display also works on paper made in pencil and pastels. Thick sheets that the artist folds to create a grid of rectangles, an ordered space on which he then organizes his drawings. In this case also the black backgrounds are the setting for delicate and melancholy figures that alternate with abstract shapes and words drawn in pastel.

The exhibition ends with two videos, specially made for this solo show, entitled The Painter and Painting. Two journeys into the artist's imagery made up of black and white visions, empty rooms and faces whose features dissolve as if covered by clouds of smoke.

On the occasion of the exhibition, a book will be printed with interviews with the artist of Elisabetta Castellari, Manuela Gandini, Ignas Kazakevičius, Laura Lauzzana, Saskia Riedel, Roberto Venturelli, Wolfgang Ullrich.