Ex Elettrofonica is pleased to announce, on Friday 9 May 2025, the opening of the gallery’s second solo show featuring Federico Pietrella, entitled Ink stamps, watercolours and Nescafé.

For his latest exhibition, the artist has decided to open the pages of his diary, with images he’s taken himself, to the spectator’s outside gaze. A simple act the artist has been doing for years now, and yet still brave given its desire to  let the other in to an intimate and solitary space made up of quiet strolls in the city where he lives, scenes captured from his home window, work done in the early morning when everything is in disarray, and rebirth all depends on a cup of coffee.

Along with ink stamps, which make Pietrella’s work recognisable to a broad audience, small watercolours also make an appearance in this exhibit. They lend the exhibit the colour and speed of free movement, which counterbalance the meticulous monochrome work carried out with the stamp, which takes the artist many working days.

This exhibit features all the elements that distinguish the artist’s poetic: the subjectivity of themes, the importance of light, the different times that the work of painting requires, the practice of painting as a discipline. Beyond appearances, all the landscapes reconstruct a completely human daily routine, made up of phases of the day, annoyances and habits, the exterior speaking of the interior.

FEDERICO PIETRELLA
Date stamps, watercolours and Nescafé

With a text by Cecilia Canziani

OPENING: 9 May, 2025
10 MAY -27 JUNE, 2025

 

Federico Pietrella (Roma 1973), lives and works in Rome. His work has been displayed in several locations in Italy and abroad, including: MACRO, Rome; MART, Rovereto; Villa Romana, Florence; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin/Guarene; American Academy in Rome; Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne; Stadtgalerie, Kiel; Kunstlerhaus, Graz; ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe; Assab One, Milan; Villa Manin, Passariano di Codroipo; Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea di Trento; National Gallery, Praha; Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna, Bologna; Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome; Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Guang Dong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; Istituto Italiano di Cultura, London; Fondazione Smart, Rome; Fondazione Del Monte, Bologna; Collezione Farnesina, Rome; Ambasciata Italiana in Berlin; Serlachius Museum Gösta, Mänttä.