… my photography, which I like to define as “pictorial and meditative”, investigates the borderline between truth and fiction, reality and imagination and between opposites as no-divisible elements …

I share Achille Bonito Oliva’s concept of ‘public art’ understood as art to be shared in public spaces, socially and spiritually stimulating, unfinished and evolving – as it is open to interpretation and participation by the ‘public’.

My idea of ​​“the right time” is like that of John Cage’s silence.

I aim at the concepts of harmony, collaboration and sharing, for a philosophy of life that Edmund Burke summarizes in one sentence: “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that the good man do nothing” …

Photography and visual arts

P. P. was born in Salerno in ’59, Roman by adoption in ’78

Photographer of art, architecture, dance, advertising, portraiture and portfolio.
She attends the free school of the nude at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome – 1980

She buys and personally renovates a house in the medieval village of Capena, north of Rome.
She is attending the three-year course in Advertising Photography at the I.E.D. – ’83 -’85

She participates in the foundation of the Ist. Superior of Photography with a group of students and teachers: M. Cavalli, G. Chieregato, F. Cerqua, T. D’amico, where she graduated -’86
She creates the women’s-only advertising studio Photofollie-’87
She creates the Lucus Feroniae Photographic Laboratory with the Municipality of Capena – ’97 – ’01
She moves to Paris where she lives between the world of art and crafts. She participates in some exhibitions and auctions where her artistic work is highly appreciated receiving some awards-’93-’95

Her work has been characterized since 1990 by interventions of painting and collage on photography, with the elaboration of a personal technique that she calls photo-collage. Contaminations and citations alternate in a stratification of planes that merge into a single image, not revealing its boundaries.

The traveling exhibition “Following the dreams …” features a collection of 22 limited edition photo-collages on medium format photographic paper.

In 95, on her return from Paris, she creates a new collection of photo-collages in large format, on jute canvas and hot pressed photography, entitled “Constellations”. In this operation, Pinella dares to overlap and merge with works by great artists, conceptually violating their sacredness, to feel their flavor and at the same time make an attempt at revitalization and sharing, in a path of belonging and encounter. In 96 she was invited to exhibit her works at the Foto Roma Show.

Her strong bond with the Aeolian Islands, which has always been a source of inspiration, is significant, where she takes care of the image of various tourist facilities.

Since ’98 she has dedicated herself to digital art and to the restoration of old photographs with both brush and digital retouching techniques.

In 2007 she moved to Salerno where she opened the Via Zara Studio.

In 2011 she began her collaboration with Paolo Ceola, a Venetian artist designer, forming a group called PiPol from the initials of their names.

Her subsequent research is dedicated to “the woman as an intermediary with the divine”, an artistic-spiritual path.

She participates in the “Sopraffactions” project, which emphasizes the end of the sacredness of the artwork, as finished and untouchable, during which she elaborates a personal technique, which combines the three-dimensionality of matter with the intangibility of digital with the work Emersioni Remote – photography immersed in resin (40 “x 40”).

He collaborates with some architects to furnish apartments by creating personalized photographic artworks.

In 2013 she specializes in Home Staging and Interior Photography working throughout the country, in 2014 she rediscovers her passion for Jazz music and photography.

She participate in some contemporary art competitions receiving awards and special mentions. Since 2011 she has been dedicating herself to projects on the femininity of disabled women to break down cultural barriers through photographic portraiture and other artistic interventions: Femininity is Woman – Not a world apart, but a part of the world.

In 2018 she created her new Oro-Graphia project with a collection of photographic miniatures on 24k gold dedicated to “The places of the soul”, entitled “Vara pe’ sette!” Salina and her six sisters. The result of an inner search she experiences alchemical transformations in search of joy. In 2020 she returns to Rome to promote Oro-Graphia, her exclusive gold style technique.

P. P. exhibited in various Italian and French galleries. Her works appear in several private collections in New York, Rhode Island, Miami, Bruxelles, Paris, Miami, Zurich and in Italy, at the Bibl. Civica di Alessandria, at the Museum of Photography of the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, at the Dobfar Pharmaceutical House in Anagni.

Her work as a freelance mainly in Rome, Salerno and Salina.

Awards: 2018 special mention Frida Kalho Women – Museo of operation Avalanche Eboli SA, 2016 special mention Art meets the social II Biennale di Salerno, online prize Nextsense Oneshot Biennale Salerno, photography prize Biennale Arte Contemporanea Salerno, painting prize, prize Sculpture and special mention Giffoni Film Festival Be Different Salerno.

Collective exhibitions:

Galleria Amanei Photographic miniatures on gold, Santa Marina Salina

AEqua NOX Exhibition of decontemporary art by Maurizio Barres – Ven. Convent of San Francesco-
Giffoni Valle Piana -SA

Frida Kalho Art Love Revolution, Museum deof operation Avalanche Eboli- Sa

Mail art “Me and Beauty” Centrum Latinitas Europae Syracuse

Ass. Cult. Blue Angel “into the magic” Antica Ramiera Giffoni Film Festival

Prize II Biennial of Art Cont. Trotula de Ruggiero Palazzo Fruscione -Salerno

The charm of normo-disability, guest of the Biennale di Arte Cont., San Nicolas Buenos Aires Argentina

Pantapais III IAC 2016-Naples

Legambiente: Festambiente impromptu 2015 Festival eco art culture solidarity, Paestum-Sa

Flos Carmeli 2015 Artist and photographer sarongs – Agropoli-Sa Castle

Quintessence – Castello dell’Abate – S. Maria di Castellabate-Sa

Artist sarongs 2015-Art Gallery Carmine Pandolfi, Agropoli- Sa

Mother Earth II ° IAC Theater Sala C Capasso – Naples

Foemina, between Eros and Thanatos-32 female artists Art Gallery Carmine Pandolfi, Agropoli- Salerno

Trotula De Ruggero Prize 1 Biennial of Contemporary Art Palazzo Fruscione Salerno

Angelo Azzurro Be different Giffoni Film Festival Salerno Award

seidonnepersei – B. Molajoli Art Gallery, Fabriano-An

Pipol and La pu-belle, Hotel Raito, Raito- Amalfi Coast

Sopraffactions project by G. Salerno itinerant and in working progress:

former hospital of San Rocco, Matera
Palace of the Popes, Viterbo
Ruggi d’Aragona Palace, Salerno
S. Sofia Museum, Brescia
Cosenza-Fabriano, Rome

Video Dance Competition, Syrene, Pan Museum, Naples

Syrene, dance-theater, with M. Sarandrea, Teatro il Vascello, Rome

Femininity is Woman by C. Rossetti femininity and disability: Sale Vantini, Municipality of Salò

Fighting with cult ass art. West Indians, Palazzo Genovese, Salerno

Fuorisalone 2011 via Tortona 37 with Altek Italia Design, Milan

“Art told by the audience” ass. Cult. L’art ’re pazz Palazzo Ruggi D’Aragona, Salerno

Video and photo ass. cult L’art ’re pazz at FORUM PA Nuova Fiera in Rome

“The breast”- conference of Art, Culture and Medicine, Casino Sociale, Salerno

Salerno In Arte Award Waste in search of a second life author with La pu-belle sei tu:
Arcadja-ArcadjaArtClub Art Gallery, Brescia
Vanvitelliano Palace, San Severino- Salerno
Palazzo del Podestà – Ambiente Festival 2010, Rimini
Ex Salid, Salerno
Mediterre, Bari

Artists for Unicef solidarity:
Cargaleiro Foundation, gal. Sottana, Vietri sul mare
Milione House, Salerno
Church of Sant’Apollonia. Salerno
55 photographers Il Fotogramma Literary Coffee, Rome – Baronial Palace Calcata-Vt

The eternal feminine – Salerno open doors Convent of San Michele, Salerno

The postman’s house -Téléthon, Paris

6th Biennial of Contemporary Art, Palazzo Guasco, Alessandria

Postcard Collage -Sharjah Art Museum- United Arab Emirates

September 11-Post Post Scriptum-tazebao spontaneous:
Termini Station-Mazzoniana wing, Rome
BBAA Academy, Viterbo
Polytechnic, Milan
Extemporaneous for 11 September Casa farm. Dobfar, Anagni
Artist’s Tazebao -Polisgramma- Anagni Arte, Anagni

Presentation of the book “Il postino” homage to Neruda and Troisi, Regione Sicily, C. Studios Lipari, Salina

Polysgram, Gall. Municipal of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome

Billposting of posters-works in advertising spaces in the Municipality of Rome

At the Lavatoio Contumaciale by Bianca Menna, for Photogrammatica, Rome

Il Fotogramma, for the centenary of Tina Modotti, Academy of Arts and New Technologies, Rome

Galleria Verrengia, collettive with Schifano, Willburgher, etc. Salerno

Surreality Photography:
Villa Niscemi, Palermo-
Villa Torlonia, Rome-
Roman History Museum, Rome Eur

L’art au quotidien, Arpa International, Chapelle de la Salpetriere, Paris

Roman photographic avant-garde 1982/1992 University of Tor Vergara, Rome

ILFORD: Salone della Fotografia, Naples

Sicof, Aproma, Mafer, Manfrotto, Polaroid, Milan

 

Personal exhibitions

September 2020 Oro-graphie, Botanical Garden of Rome, Salina Doc Festival – Rome

“Vara pe’ sette” Photographic miniatures on gold “The places of the soul” – Palazzo Marchetti – Salina

Rebel Moon at Madzone 2015 – Rome

Retrospective 1990-2012 BEA Review of Publishing and Art, Bibbiena – AR

Photo-collages, permanent, Hotel Paradiso, Raito – Amalfi Coast

Cenacle – pictorial photographs, ass. Osiris, presentation by Marcello Napoli, Salerno

Salerno Porte Aperte: “the natural paths of being” photography on aluminum and
“the pu-belle are you” plexiglass’ stele – Villa Carrara, Salerno

“ri-trattiamoci” set-laboratory of photographic portraits, Via Zara Atelier, Salerno

May Arts, voices of the moon: Musica & Musìca-Diocesan Museum, Salerno

From the inside – negatives on aluminum – Teatro del Giullare, Salerno

BELLOridea: elaborations on back-stage Hotel Convento di San Michele – Salerno

Real time photographic portraits – S. Maria de Lama, Salerno Open Doors, Salerno

Jewelery on bodies, blow-up – Archigold-Detroit-Michigan-U.S.A

Constellations, ph.collages:
Social Casino, Salerno
Estate Romana’98, Villa Ada, Rome
Mc Cann Erikson, Rome
Photo Roma Show, Fiera di Roma
Gall. Rosamilia, Kodak, Castel San Giorgio- Sa

Between the shattering of reality and oneiric recomposition, Dia Gallery, Frascati-Rome

Following the dreams …, photo-collages:
Galerie de Castelnou, Paris
Alpheus M.U.S.A., Rome
Gallery La bottega dell’immagine, Rome
Aeolian Studies and Problems Center, Lipari, I. Aeolian
Gall.Tempo 2000, Salerno

Advertising, still-life and fashion, Galician Fovea P. Verrengia, Salerno

CalcatAcalcata, ambient portraits B/W gal. L’Eremita by G. Carpentieri and G. Salerno, Calcata

She photographed:
cinema theater dance: Omar Sharif, Yves Les Breton, Marina Ripa di Meana, Susy Blady, Enzo De Caro, M Grazia sarandrea, Janina Quinores and Neri Piliu, Natalia Cristofaro and Pablo Clvelli.
visual artists: Tano Festa, Pizzi Cannella, Marco Fioramanti, Alberto Parres, Rosina Wachtmeister, Patrizio Zona
jazz musicians: Luis Bacalov, Paolo Vivaldi, Cristal White, Joy Garrison, Phillis Brandford, Sasà Mendoza, Joe Amoruso, Nico Di Battista, Mino Cavallo, Antonio Onorato, Jerry Popolo, Diego Moreno, Duo Fuertes Varmerin, Franco Cerri, Francesco Buzzurro, Rino Zurzolo
Collaborations: Ag. Creativi in Monti, Luxardo, R. Elliot, A. Zappalà, G. M. Chieregato, Galleria Soligo, Parres, ed. De Agostini, Ed.mammeonline, Jals Roma, Mariagrazia Sarandrea.
Catalogs: SalinaDocFest 2019 and 2020, R-Evolution 2019- AEquaNOX 2018, Frida Khalo WOMEN 3 ed. 2018, Museo de l’Avalanche -2 Biennale di Salerno, 1 Biennale Arte Salerno 2014, Angelo Azzurro Art Competition Festival Giffoni Valle Piana 2014, Salerne in Art 2009, 6th Biennial of Contemporary Art Alessandria 2007- Tazebao spontaneo PPS – Tazebao d artist PPS – Project Firpo Post Post Scriptum – Trans Loco – Photogrammatica 1996 – Roman photographic avant-garde 1982 1992 – Beyond the mirror.
Publications: Cover books: A story of stalking – portrait in The mystery of the postman by Pippo Cafarella – Magazines: Dove- Isole & Isole – Being – Silhouette – Olis – Co.incidences – Agire – KR991 – Eurochic – F&D – Reflex – Book d art by R. Wachtmeister – Journey into wonders with Omar Sharif, Ed. “De Agostini” – Cat. Orsa Maggiore 86, Mazzotta – Cat. Barocco Romano by Tano Festa, Fabbri Editori – Cat.Parres, Ed.Soligo – Sabian
Press: La Repubblica – Roma – Il Giornale di Napoli – Il Mattino -Cronache del Mezzogiorno – La Città
Jazz cover: lp Steve Lacy The Glame jazz Silkheart records – G. Russo Globo Records – L’Una e’l Soul Ars Nova Italia – Sasà Mendoza Alfalibri – Crystall White azzurramusic
Reviews: poets M. Napoli – P. Cafarella – E. R.Grassi – M. Opacha; art critics: F.G. Crispolti C.F.Carli – G. Siano – S. Porretta – G. La Rosa – S. Messina – M. Brunetti – G. Taddeo – G. Carioti – A. Criscuoli – S. Turzi
Tv: Alle porte del Kilimangiaro, Belly dance Rai Tre – Uno mattina, photo-sculpture Superturbodisel 7777 Rai Uno-