Pietro Tinu - Untitled

The work is an abstract composition. "Abstract" derives from the Latin term "abstrahere," which means to extract or draw out. The process of abstraction, in fact, consists of eliminating the particular and individual aspects of an object to derive a universal concept. From Kandinsky to Mondrian, from Pollock to Mirò, many painters have pushed the process of abstraction to the limit in their works, paradoxically creating pure forms and colors that do not exist in nature, or translating their emotions and instincts into images.

Fundamentally, this composition by Pietro Tinu draws on a search for pure colors. As we can see, the structure is composed of thick, chromatic brushstrokes. However, the artist goes beyond a simple exercise in abstraction, as his exploration also veers toward the informal. It is precisely between the segments formed by the colored areas that an almost biomorphic entity, characterized by a dense, textured surface, rages. The brushstrokes interlock, creating a surreal space reminiscent of Mirò's abstract art.

Pietro Tinu (Ozieri, 1923 – Cagliari, 1999). After graduating from the Art Institute of Sassari in 1945, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where he studied under Felice Carena, Primo Conti, Giovanni Colacicchi, and Pietro Annigoni, to name just a few. Years later, in the 1960s, he became a professor of Decoration at the same Academy (where he taught for about 30 years), having by then moved permanently to Tuscany. He exhibited at the VII National Quadrennial of Art in Rome in 1955 at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni. During the 1970s, he held solo exhibitions in Florence, Bari, Camaiore, Cesena, Salerno, and Terni. Between December 2000 and January 2001, the Municipality of Santa Croce sull'Arno held an anthological exhibition entitled “Pietro Tinu – Painting and Graphics” (subtitled “A Life in Rigour”, 60 paintings on display) at the Villa Pacchiani Exhibition Centre.

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