Iacopo Pinelli's 'Sui corpi galleggianti' at Shazar Gallery, Naples

Iacopo Pinelli (born 1993 in Gavardo) presents his solo exhibition 'Sui corpi galleggianti' at Shazar Gallery in Naples. The show features an installation of marine objects—buoys, lifebuoys, armbands, and floating boards—reproduced in lead and cement, stripped of their original function. Pinelli draws inspiration from his native Marche region and a sense of childhood play now lost. The works evoke a decadent world where silence is frozen and humanity is suspended in unhappiness. The exhibition also includes wall diptychs depicting a rake and a chair. The critic Antonello Tolve reviews the show, noting references to philosopher Giorgio Agamben's pamphlet 'Quando la casa brucia' (Giometti&Antonello). Pinelli's process is described as modular and spontaneous, distinct from Elena Bellantoni's 'CeMento' (2019 at Galleria Nazionale di Roma). The installation transforms the gallery space into a sterile plain where sand becomes slate and objects become elegies.