Post-Human Hallucination: merging artificial intelligence and oil painting in a repetitive and circular process to explore a new expanded ecology of visions. In Pietro Catarinella‘s work, the image is born from a hybridization: fragments of ancient works and personal paintings are introduced into artificial intelligence systems, generating mutant visions, fluid bodies, anatomies without borders. Printed on canvas, these hallucinations are then crossed by oil painting, in a gesture that does not correct but betrays, subverts, deepens. Between artificial and human, nature and artifice, Catarinella builds interior landscapes full of desire, disorientation and metamorphosis. Matter bends, memory dissolves: each work is the fragment of a post-human dream.
Pietro Catarinella lives and works in Milan.
An architect by training, he obtained a master’s degree in art photography from Central Saint Martins in London in 2014. It is during this period that he defined his artistic practice: a research of digital genesis that questions the changes in reality and visual representation in the era of the Internet, social networks and new media.
His works have recently been exhibited in important foundations and museums in Italy and abroad, including Zebrastaad / Foundation Liedts-Meesen, Ghent, Belgium (2025), Wuhan Art Museum Qintai, China (2024), Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo, Italy (2022 and 2019), Baco, Base Arte Contemporanea Odierna, Bergamo, Italy (2021), Fondazione Pini, Milan, Italy (2020), Macro, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Italy (2019). He was a finalist for the following awards: NTAa ’25 – New Technological Art Award | Finalist (2025 – ongoing), Prisma Art Prize (2024), Francesco Fabbri Prize – Contemporary Photography (2022 and 2019), Lumen Prize (2019 and 2017), Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize (2018) and winner of the Ora Prize (2019).
