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Born October 23, 1925 · Verona, Italy
A crucial figure in Italian post-war art, Marinella PIRELLI left behind a unique body of work, including painting, drawing, moving image, light environments and experimental cinema. With a career spanning more than fifty years, Pirelli's artistic efforts and unquestionable talent are still surprisingly under-recognised. Her approach–both incredibly personal, and avant-garde–has meant that Pirelli has avoided many definable schools and currents, although remaining in contact with the best of contemporary creativity of her time. Marinella was at this time particularly close to the artists Carla Accardi, Jannis Kounellis, Luciano Fabro, Bruno Munari and the important feminist theorist, Carla Lonzi. She was one of the few Italian woman artists working in experimental film and her works traverse numerous thematics connected to the body, the gaze and the relationship with the cinema apparatus/projection event. Marinella Pirelli passed away at the age of 84 years in 2009. In the final years of her life, Pirelli had retrospectives at the Chiostro di Voltorre, Varese (1999), at Villa Panza, Varese and at the Museo de Arte Moderna, São Paulo (2003), at La Permanente, Milan (2005). Spanning more than fifty years, Pirelli's artistic efforts are still surprisingly under recognised though her recent retrospective at Museo del Novecento in Milan (2019) has brought her back under the spotlight. She was awarded numerous prizes, including the FEDIC - Italian Cineclub Federation Award (1964); and the 57th Michetti Award - Italian Lab (2006). [biography from Richard Saltoun Gallery]

Double Self-Portrait
1974

Sole Sole Sole
1973

Sole in mano (o appropriazione, a propria azione, azione propria)
1973

Bruciare
1971
Document #1
1970

Al Di Là Della Pittura
1969

inter-vento
1969

Nuovo Paradiso
1969
Document #2
1969

Film Ambiente
1969

Naturale Artificiale (La Rosa)
1968

Luce movimento
1967

Narcissus, film experience
1967

Da Neve A Rosa
1966

La Piccola Noia
1966

Il Lago Azzurrino
1966

Garments
1966

Il lago (soggettivo-oggettivo)
1965

Pinca e Palonca
1964

Gioco di dama
1961