Federico Pietrella: Giorno Dopo Giorno / Day After Day / Jour Après Jour

Federico Pietrella’s creative process is simple. He invariably uses a date stamp which is changed every day of work, and he uses it as a paint brush. The subjects are rather classic and allow him to evoke atemporal segment of his own life or of the collective’s. Through elegant compositions, he depicts here an interior scene (in which the window recalls a long pictorial tradition), or a bucolic landscape.

By revisiting these classical themes of painting, he adds another level of reading to his work. While depicting the concept of length, it also illustrates a traditional art history thanks to numerous references.The monochrome and pointillism driven by the tool used evoke the monochrome engravings of the Neo-Impressonist Georges Seurat.His reflexion on the course of time also remind us of conceptual artists like Alighiero Boetti in his Dall’Oggi al Domani