infopaint
Group show w/ Riccardo Bellelli, Jacopo Casamenti and Matteo Pizzolante
Curated by Cecilia Larese
10-17 oct. 2025
Infopaint, a painting exhibition done right.
In an artistic landscape where analog and digital media multiply and hybridize, painting reclaims its space. Despite the perception of its obsolescence, it never truly seems to confront this condition. In this dialogue, Infopaint presents itself as a territory capable of absorbing information logic and graphic languages: Riccardo Bellelli, Jacopo Casamenti, and Matteo Pizzolante connect image, sign, and communication, transforming painting into a device that not only displays, but also transmits knowledge. This isn't an educational intent, however, but rather a demonstration that simply declaring "this is painting" is enough to redefine its boundaries.
For centuries, the specificity of the pictorial medium has been identified in its two-dimensionality: a flat, vertical surface that Clement Greenberg defined as a "pure surface." Today, that model seems reductive, almost nostalgic. Contemporary surfaces become informative spaces, traversed by stratifications, techniques, and contaminations that engage with digital aesthetics and post-functional materials. In Bizkit (2024), Riccardo Bellelli bends the language of painting to that of display, recovering objects and transforming them into supports to challenge the limits of two-dimensionality and redefine the relationship between matter, gesture, and perception. The chosen, highly recognizable symbols allow him to degrade the support in such a way as to detach it from the original image. In parallel, Matteo Pizzolante explores the unconscious through graphic phrases, created using tone-on-tone patches, which appear on the canvas like evanescent dialogues between two entities. This is the case of Going fast without a helmet with the wind blowing in my face (2025), a work full of hidden languages, which reveal themselves as signs to be deciphered rather than images to be contemplated.
Here, painting is no longer mere representation but a place of experimentation and dialogue between different codes. With the site-specific work Login Text Opal Qabbalah (2025), Jacopo Casamenti takes this process to the extreme: text, signs, and symbols become visual matter, merging conceptual code and graphic language.
In the contemporary post-medium context, it is no longer traditional materials that define the work, but rather the logics the artist deploys. The medium is no longer merely a support but a conceptual structure capable of encompassing different languages. In this sense, painting transforms into a process, a fluid strategy that moves between material and concept, between method and disruption.
Infopaint does not aim to propose new rules but to offer a reading that distances itself from traditional parameters, highlighting how a system can be redefine itself from within. Far from perceiving the post-medium condition as a threat, the exhibition embraces it as an opportunity: it embraces the logics of graphic design and the symbolic and transforms them into possibilities for its own language.