Alchimie marine

The exhibition flows like an underwater current: silent, at times intangible, but capable of pulling the viewer into an immersive journey between the depths of the sea and those of art.
The starting point is the line: not just any line, but the fine, skittish, ever-changing line traced by wire. Pinosio uses it to construct hybrid creatures and forms: suspended fish, turtles, lobsters, and stylised crabs that appear to vibrate in space like silent presences. The rigid, solid material bends to the artist’s gesture, revealing a submerged world of uncontaminated and unexplored seabeds where weightlessness becomes substan-
tial, and the void between the solids becomes a language ushering us into a universe yet to be discovered.

One of the most fascinating aspects of his work is the relationship between each piece and its shadow.
The sculptures do not end at their three dimensions, but find a second life in the projections they generate: moving shadows, altered by light, which become works of art in their own right. In an almost alchemical process, these shadows are collected, traced and transformed into drawings on paper, which return a transfigured, more colourful and sometimes rarefied version. It is in this transition that the artist reveals his tension towards metamorphosis: the image shifts, evolves and becomes something else while retaining the memory of its origin.

In other works, ink and drawing chase each other between instinct and control. The inkblot, left to behave freely on paper, is then crossed by the line: a precise, but never rigid mark that follows it, interprets it, and sometimes contradicts it. Here, Pinosio explores the very fine line between creative chaos and the artist’s categorising will. In this way, each work manifests an unstable balance, where the unexpected is welcomed and steered, but never completely tamed.

In this exhibition, the sea is much more than a theme: it is a symbolic driving force, a fluid arena where opposites interact. Matter and light, form and disintegration, gesture and design clash like waves in motion.
The ‘alchemies’ suggested by the title are therefore not only aesthetic but existential: each work is the result of a transformation, a crossing, an intuition that takes shape.

Pinosio offers no answers, but opportunities for wonder. His fish aren’t swimming in an aquarium, but in the empty space of the exhibition; his algae aren’t growing on the seabed, but in the suspended gesture of the
drawing. Here, in this suspended state - between concreteness and imagination, between craftsmanship and vision - lies the poetic power of his work.
At a time when matter seems to be losing weight and meaning, Alchimie Marine reminds us that even wire - when guided by a skilled hand - can dance like a thought.

Armando Blasi