The collection of photographic images that I present to you is dedicated
to the places of the soul: first of all, Salina and her six sisters.
“Vara pe’ sette!” …
seven islands, seven notes and colors of the rainbow,
seven chacra and the letters of my name …
seven “maare” which, according to legend, with a formula
magical boats launched at night to sail beyond
borders under the stars of the Aeolian archipelago …
The idea comes from the desire to capture the essence of beauty
which belongs to those places that meet
essential, sacred, like a passionate lover …
thus was born “vara pe’ sette”, the first fruit of a soul journey
which combines art, love and spirituality in a magical one
alchemical combination where everything,
despite its simplicity,
it becomes unique, precious, … inseparable. Pinella
STORES
SHOW ROOM Pinella Palmisano
Rome – Salerno
Boutique “A Putia” Malfa – Salina
EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS
2018 “Vara pe ‘seven” Salina and her six sisters – 40 miniature images
The world premiere at Palazzo Marchetti – 12 August – 3 October, Malfa – Salina
Amanei Gallery – Santa Marina, Salina
Hotel Capo Faro – Capo, Salina
Time OFF Ass. Cult, Artistic and jazz contaminations, Salerno
2019 Large sizes from 20×20 to 30×70 cm
it.ELITE Milano show room art fashion design
Amanei Gallery S. Marina Salina
Hotel Signum Malfa Salina
Boutique in ’Putia Malfa Salina
Prizes for Giovanna Taviani’s XIII SalinaDocFest, (R) ESISTENZE: Tasca Prize, Signum Prize of the Audience and Wif Prize
2020 “Family Portraits”
Amanei Gallery, Santa Marina – Salina
Hotel Signum, Malfa – Salina
Boutique A ’Putia, Malfa – Salina
Expo / stand – guest at Giovanna Taviani’s XIV SalinaDocFest – Youth / young age – Botanical Garden of Rome
2021 “IDDU” triptych selected at the Artkeys 03 Award – Castello Angioino Aragonese – Agropoli.
Numerous Oro-Graphie are present in private collections in Italy and abroad: New York City-Rhode Island-
Sidney-Brussels-London-Paris.
Publications
Il Mattino di Salerno 5 Dec 2018 by Gabriella Taddeo
Catalog ed. XIII SalinaDocFest by Giovanna Taviani, (R) EXISTENCES – 2019
Catalog ed. XIV SalinaDocFest – YOUTH / The young age – 2020
Presentation
The history and evolution of photography has taken on a temporal springboard in recent years to make it suitable for everyone: just a click, a blink of an eye. Pixels like thousands of insect eyes recompose an image and anyone can make and undo, build and deconstruct sunrises, sunsets, lights in the night, portraits, moments.
From flint to electronics: it is the evolution of man, of Time.
In the small “jewels” of Pinella Palmisano, we find this story enclosed in a few centimeters; not only the one from the early decades of the nineteenth century, but even further back.
The work that has base, passion, profession, photographic practice, truly becomes ``extension and control`` from the mind to the hand to the enjoyment of the eyes.
The iroko wood is cut and prepared, then like a ``copyist``, a medieval scribe, Palmisano fixes the gold on the wood.
The fourteenth-fifteenth-century images that made Tuscany, of Italy that did not yet exist as a political unit, come to mind, the capital of the world of art.
On this precious, shining base, in this ray of sunshine transported to wood, the photographer marries painting, returning to a manual skill that electronics somehow hides.
On that ray of pure gold, the profile of an island, a boat on the shoreline, a page of Mediterranean scrub, stone houses emerge as silhouettes. Black and gold:
don't they remember certain paintings by Klimt? certain shovels?
don't they bring back to mind the Mediterranean sunsets backlight, some fleeting moments of purity and beauty?
In these fragments and landscapes, where infinity is minimal, the horizon is a thought ``there is nothing that is not beauty, order and luxury, calm and voluptuousness``, in the words of Baudelaire.
Pinella Palmisano, has never been satisfied with elsewhere, with the click as it is: looking at these small golden rays and figures will be like for a poet, for the viewer to perceive a sea in a drop.
Marcello Napoli 8 March 2019
August 2018, Palazzo Marchetti, Salina
For forty years I was a director of Rai ...
The control room has a monitor wall and each monitor corresponds to a camera the camera shows me images where I have to choose the one that excites me the most, the one that gives me the most at that moment and looking at Pinella's work I had a strong emotion: she was able to grasp and tell what each of us probably felt when arriving and experiencing the island, the colors of the island, the mount fossa, the sea that changes light and color depending on where you see it , according to the shot ... the palms our coasts that change blue depending on whether you see them on this side where it is darker or on the other side where it is lighter... all of this excited me and all this she stared at it through the his photographic images on the most precious of metals: gold, therefore the preciousness of our island fixed on gold.
... hearing this story about the seas to which Pinella connects by dedicating the title of his exhibition to them, I was very struck by the memory of women capable of flying, of going far to Australia, to their son, in one night, taking a lamp and take it to Alicudi ... fantastic stories, ... and this made me think that even then women needed to fly a bit far from everyday life, a bit far from what we have to do, necessarily, from what we are obliged to do, if nothing else there is the imagination to be able to fly..
surely there were additives, someone talks about datura or other herbs ... but the truth was that it was the women who flew, not the men, the women who wanted to get up and go, rise ... and that's what Pinella did with the his works
Pinella is flying high, very high ...
Lella Artesi
to emerge the references to the procedure of an early experience that dates back to the birth of photography; perhaps even further back, to the first impressions of daguerreotype or ambrotype or calotype or tintype.
The charm of the ancient and the precious is ensured not only by the gold leaf on which the photographic images are printed, but also by the landscapes shown in the contents, in medium and small formats that mostly reproduce the shots in his Salina .
Here is how the photographer artist has built suggestive souvenirs of the enchanting Aeolian islands, beyond the object to be admired in the Plexiglas frames. If the small-format golden images were well fixed to the wooden support, they could be used by less formal ladies also as contemporary cameos, obviously applying a brooch.
Giuseppe Siano, 31 October 2018
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