Gioacchino Pontrelli

Born in Salerno (Italy) in 1966,
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 throught painting, as painting is able to alter and redefine the codes and the ways contemporaneity is percevied and consumed. Using alternately tradidiotnal 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 pyhisical, 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 gestual expressiveness.

Education

Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, art section,
graduated 87/88

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010

VII Biennale d’arte Postumia Giovani 2010/2011,
curated by Beatrice Buscaroli

Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Gazoldo degli Ippoliti, (MN)

Concerning space, curated by Daniela Bigi,
Antico Municipio San Donato Val di Comino (FR)

Impresa Pittura, curated by Raffaele Gavarro
and Claudio Libero Pisano (director of Ciac)
CIAC - Centro Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea
Castello Colonna di Genazzano (Roma)

Passaggi, curated by Maria Chiara Valacchi
Pinacoteca Civica, Follonica

2009

Take the space, curated by Patrizia Ferri,
Palazzo della Vicaria, Trapani

Corrispondenze, curated by Lorenzo Canova,
Banca Dexia Crediop, Roma

Viaggi scoperte ritorni,
Galleria La Bussola, Cosenza

Italian Calling,
Galleria BonelliLab, Canneto S/O (MN)

Altre stanze, curated by Claudio Libero Pisano, CIAC,
Centro Internazionale per l'Arte Contemporanea,
Castello Colonna, Genazzano (Rome)

In Between, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg

2006

In Between, curated by Federico Mazzonelli,
Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto (TN)

2002

Distorted Superficiality, curated by Laura Culpan,
Galleria Autori Cambi, Rome

2000

Vaneggio, curated by Raffaele Gavarro,
Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milano

Serie Analogica, curated by Raffaele Gavarro
and Ludovico Pratesi, Studio Ercolani, Bologna

1998

Gioacchino Pontrelli, curated by Raffaele Gavarro,
Galleria Carlo Maria Weber, Torino

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009

Take the space, curated by Patrizia Ferri,
Palazzo della Vicaria, Trapani

Corrispondenze, curated by Lorenzo Canova,
Banca Dexia Crediop, Rome

Viaggi scoperte ritorni, Galleria La Bussola, Cosenza

Italian Calling, Galleria MonelliLab, Canneto S/O (MN)

2008

Well darling, I act, curated by Matteo Boetti,
Studio Matteo Boetti c/o adele-c Studio, Rome

Allarmi 2008 (section: Astero), curated by Alberto Zanchetta,
Caserma Cristoforis, Como

Words, Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto (TN)

2006

Grazie per una volta,
Valentina Bonomo Arte Contemporanea, Rome

2005

E vissero felici e contenti (con Marco Papa),
curated by Francesco Ventrella, Galleria Autori Cambi, Rome

GetsËmani, curated by Alberto Zanchetta,
AndreA Arte ContemporaneA, Vicenza

2004

Arte italiana per il XXI secolo, curated by Lorenzo Canova,
Palazzo della Farnesina, Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Rome

InsideOut. A Temporary Art Collection,
curated by Maria Alicata and Francesco Ventrella,
Rialto Sant’Ambrogio, Rome

P.C. / A.C. Palermo Change, curated by Matteo Boetti,
Laura Garbarino and Giuliana Stella, ex deposito locomotive
Sant’Erasmo, Palermo

2003

Melting Pop, curated by Gianluca Marziani,
Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena

FuturoItaliano, curated by Lorenzo Canova,
Parlamento Europeo, Bruxelles

2002

Archivio attivo, curated by Daniela Bigi,
Centro per l’arte contemporanea, Carbognano (VT)

301.302 km2. Paesaggio italiano attraverso la pittura, curated
by Luca Beatrice, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Firenze

Antologia Romena, curated by Daniela Bigi
and Roberto Lambarelli, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Siena

2001

Cantieri Romeni, curated by Arnaldo Romeni Brizzi
and Ludovico Pratesi, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea, Rome

Senza mani! Provos e le biciclette bianche,
curated by Matteo Guarnaccia and Marco Cingolani,
Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milano

2000

Futurama. Arte in Italia. Frequenze e segnali
dalle ultime generazioni, curated by Bruno Corà,
Raffaele Gavarro and Marco Meneguzzo,
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato

1999

AutodafË, curated by Raffaele Gavarro, Studio Ercolani, Bologna

Giganti. Arte Contemporanea nei Fori Imperiali,
curated by Ludovico Pratesi and Alessandra Maria Sette,
Fori Romeni, Rome

1998

Immaginate, curated by Raffaele Gavarro,
ex Palazzo del Municipio, Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Caserta

La pittura nella cruna dell’ago, curated by Raffaele Gavarro,
Palazzo delle Arti, Capodrise (CE)

Festa dell’arte, curated by Lina Calenne and Simona Cresci,
ex Mattatoio, Rome

Panta Rei, Galleria Carlo Maria Weber, Turin

1997

In che senso italiano?, curated by Autori Messa,
Galleria Anna D’Ascanio, Rome

Giro d’Italia, curated by Raffaele Gavarro,
Galleria L’Attico, Rome

1996

In tempo, curated by Raffaele Gavarro, Alberto Weber, Turin

1995

All’armi!, curated by Raffaele Gavarro,
Quartiere Militare Borbonica, Casagiove (CE)

1994

Pittura al muro, curated by Raffaele Gavarro,
Palazzo Pretorio, Fucecchio (FI)

Prizes

2009

winner for painting, Fabbri Award - third edition,
Villa delle Rose, Bologna

2003

Premio Agenore Fabbri, MART - Museo di Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto (TN);
Institut Mathildenhohe, Darmstadt

2001

Premio Cairo Communications, Antica Posteria, Milan

1997

37_ Premio Suzzara. Immagini di realtà, immagini reali,
Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Suzzara (MN)

Public collections

VAF Foundation, Frankfurt,
on load at MART - Museo di Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto (TN)

Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea di Roma

Private collections

Sliding room# permanent art collection of nerocubohotel,
Rovereto (TN) by nerocuboproject