Cristiano Pintaldi

The works of Cristiano Pintaldi confront the powerful, persuasive images of the mass media.

Like the television screen, which on close inspection reveals a series of dots, Pintaldi's paintings are alchemies of colour in which the tonalities of red, green and blue on a black canvas, construct images only recognizable from a distance.

His subject matter consists of an extensive series on "Aliens", as well as pieces on "Pygamies", lightning, the Twin Towers terrorist attack and "Big Brother", all of which fascinate the artists with their varied nature as planetary "media events".

One of the youngest artists represented in the permanent collection of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome, Pintaldi was a prize-winner at the Quadriennale d'Arte in 1996.

This book forms a diary of the artist, containing his notes, words and the comments of his fellow artists during the 1990s.