Inspiration from ‘The way to get lost’, one of his most important sculptural projects, the series of wearable works aims to convey the difficulties of contemporary man in finding certainties and stable points to hold on to within everyday existence, where everything is precarious. Since the beginning of his production, Pinna has drawn from the stylization he derived from childhood comics and illustrations to create very slender, elegant, and yet fragile figures – tightrope walkers sitting on the edge of the precipice (like those in the series ‘How deep is your love’) who, with the slightest movement or a simple bending of their shoulders towards the void, seem to be in perpetual search of a point of balance.
Nevertheless, in Pinna’s works, this uncertainty is never laden with drama; instead, it is seasoned with a distinctly contemporary irony that appears to encourage a light and ironic approach to life. Lightness becomes a predominant value in his artistic pursuit and is primarily achieved through sculptural elements: it’s as if the artwork absorbs matter rather than emanating it. Thus, all of Pinna’s stylized men with long limbs, whether conceived as lanky sculptures in bronze, lead, or knotted rope, or in their variant as “walking” works in gold, silver, and bronze, push the lightening of their volumes to the extreme. They extend into space without invading or weighing it down, evoking and suggesting without ever imposing heavy formalisms or unequivocal concepts. Salvation, perhaps, can be sought in a rediscovered and self-appropriated nature, thanks to the curious “leaf-men” of the series ‘Lost, found and lost,’ born from the hybridization of the human body and vegetal forms and transformed into pendants and rings to wear. Or, as an ironic paradox with a dance reminiscence, salvation can take on the features of a DJ encountered one night in a nightclub, stretching into the eternalized gesture of John Travolta from ‘Saturday Night Fever,’ becoming an earring or a necklace.
However, we will never have certainty about this: Pinna’s works place the viewer in front of questions and sensations that challenge common sense, leaving doubts unresolved but offering in return an aesthetic fulfillment that, in the case of his artist’s jewelry, becomes admirable every day.