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Alessandro Gioiello

Pensieri Sparsi

Text by Maria Vittoria Pinotti
Richter Fine Art continues its exhibition season with a solo show by Alessandro Gioiello (Savigliano, Cuneo, 1982). The exhibition, titled Pensieri Sparsi, is accompanied by a critical text by Maria Vittoria Pinotti and opens on Tuesday, 24 March, from 6:30 pm, remaining on view until 17 May 2026. The exhibition presents paintings stemming from the latest phase of Alessandro Gioiello’s research, initiated in the final months of last year, in which he explored a selection of objects from his studio in Racconigi (CN). All the elements inhabiting these spaces have been used as raw material to construct the pictorial works, organizing their spatial relationships, composition, and balance.
The depicted subjects are very simple presences, such as shells, floral arrangements placed in vases, or otherwise freely scattered throughout the environment. A common thread emerges in a balanced yet highly dynamic relationship, both among the compositional elements and in the color palette, where an almost crystalline coolness contrasts with warm modulations, creating a tonal equilibrium that characterizes all the works on display. The result is a cathartic vision of things, devoid of narrative, capable of offering a sensory experience and an intimate understanding of the world.
For Gioiello, painting is an act of intimate reflection, in which long periods of observation and waiting in his studio often surpass the moments of actual painting. The search for the right moment to paint reveals an extended relationship with time, an intense and contemplative engagement that allows him to embrace the phenomenological aspect of things. The paintings are rich in naturalness; the brushwork, open and spontaneous, seeks to capture the emergence of forms. This restrained simplicity corresponds to the moment in which objects are freed from their meaning, leaving space solely for their presence.
Similarly, the exhibition’s title invites us to consider the works as a random collection of thoughts, where life’s predilections, encounters with studio objects, and meditative situations converge, originating from a time that is profoundly suspended and slowed. Gioiello works with limited pictorial means, using few colors but experimenting with as many combinations and variations as possible. Small brushes are trimmed to allow broken traces that reveal the weave of the canvas. Working on the concept of the “temperature” of the painting — that is, the precise tonal combination that allows him to model space and distance — he manages to evoke the entire atmosphere surrounding the subject.
By playing with depth and transparency while keeping the edges open, he grants the work breath and openness.