Like a TV screen, Cristiano Pintaldi's paintings are alchemies of color in which the tonalities of red, green and blue, on a black canvas, construct pictures recognizable only from a distance. Confronting the powerful, persuasive images of mass media, Pintaldi references realities that are not part of ordinary experience but that variously exist as media events: aliens, pygmies, lightnight, the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, and Big Brother.
Like a TV screen, Cristiano Pintaldi's paintings are alchemies of color in which the tonalities of red, green and blue, on a black canvas, construct pictures recognizable only from a distance. Confronting the powerful, persuasive images of mass media, Pintaldi references realities that are not part of ordinary experience but that variously exist as media events: aliens, pygmies, lightnight, the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, and Big Brother.