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A crucial figure in Italian post-war art, Marinella PIRELLI left behind a unique body of work, including painting, drawing, moving image, light environments and experimental cinema. With a career spanning more than fifty years, Pirelli's artistic efforts and unquestionable talent are still surprisingly under-recognised. Her approach–both incredibly personal, and avant-garde–has meant that Pirelli has avoided many definable schools and currents, although remaining in contact with the best of contemporary creativity of her time. Marinella was at this time particularly close to the artists Carla Accardi, Jannis Kounellis, Luciano Fabro, Bruno Munari and the important feminist theorist, Carla Lonzi. She was one of the few Italian woman artists working in experimental film and her works traverse numerous thematics connected to the body, the gaze and the relationship with the cinema apparatus/projection event. Marinella Pirelli passed away at the age of 84 years in 2009. In the final years of her life, Pirelli had retrospectives at the Chiostro di Voltorre, Varese (1999), at Villa Panza, Varese and at the Museo de Arte Moderna, São Paulo (2003), at La Permanente, Milan (2005). Spanning more than fifty years, Pirelli's artistic efforts are still surprisingly under recognised though her recent retrospective at Museo del Novecento in Milan (2019) has brought her back under the spotlight. She was awarded numerous prizes, including the FEDIC - Italian Cineclub Federation Award (1964); and the 57th Michetti Award - Italian Lab (2006). [biography from Richard Saltoun Gallery]
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03 November 1969
16mm work by Marinella Pirelli.
01 January 1967
Pirelli takes close-up details of her body in a diary-like format.
02 August 1968
The film develops around a series of shots of Gino Marotta's sculptures at the Natural-Artificial exhibition at the Galleria dell'Ariete (Milan, 1968).
08 November 1969
16mm film by Marinella Pirelli.
01 January 1961
This short animated film plays on the motif of the checkerboard grid in a modernist sense, i.e. favoring the formal and graphic oppositions between the squares, the circle and the square, black and white, recalling familiar avant-garde practices.
16 November 1970
16mm work by Marinella Pirelli.
01 January 1974
Produced in January 1974, just after the death of her husband Giovanni Pirelli, the last film by Marinella Pirelli, austere and moving, appeared as an attempt to exorcise this event and the elaboration of grief.
30 May 1966
To music by John Coltrane, the film mixes quick shots of common objects or still lifes and the fragments of a filmed diary showing some friends on vacation in Torcello, in the Venetian lagoon, walking around reading the newspaper, chatting during lunch, cutting vegetables, playing chess.
12 November 1964
Pixillation 16mm film by Marinella Pirelli.
01 January 1973
A dark screen. The hand of the artist, covering the lens like a mask, rises slowly, revealing an undulating landscape in black and white.
01 March 1965
Having remained wrapped up in a dark basement for over forty years, Marinella Pirelli's 16mm film explorations of light and movement have only recently resurfaced.
30 May 1966
The lake, shot with life shots, demonstrates the mastery with which the artist treats film writing. To modern music by Bruno Maderna, the film alternates framing of winter landscapes, at dawn and dusk, with the face of a girl in the foreground.
12 November 1969
16mm film by Marinella Pirelli.
01 January 1966
This very short film portraits Luciano Fabro recording the breast of the Florentine art critic Carla Lonzi on a piece of paper, drawing a circle with a pencil, cutting it, producing a cone, wrapping it with a needle.
02 August 1966
16mm short by Marinella Pirelli.
10 November 1969
16mm film by Marinella Pirelli.
13 April 1969
Film installation by Marinella Pirelli.
12 November 1967
16mm film by Marinella Pirelli.
12 November 1973
16mm film by Marinella Pirelli.
