“Entering into a work of art and remaining there as long as it takes. Time is the measure of the quality of Gioacchino Pontrelli’s paintings. It is best not to be in too much of a hurry, because every painting, large or small, sends the viewer down various narrative paths. One after the other, they systematically compose the measure of the artist’s work. Curiosity and initial marvel soon make room for a need to investigate more deeply. Their pictorial quality acts as a passport to more complex areas. The viewer has a certain amount of responsibility: it is up to him or her to cross the thresholds into the various rooms which unfold, as the vision proceeds, in every painting.[...] As in certain scenes from Terrence Malik’s films, the organizational perfection of the settings in Pontrelli’s paintings is always functional to the narration and never an aesthetic expedient for its own sake. Today his large diptychs are flanked by smaller works.
