Rita Pirrello

“I paint what cannot easily be expressed in words”
I am an Italian architect and contemporary artist based in Sicily. I paint what cannot easily be expressed in words.

My work explores the inner landscape of emotions through color, matter and gesture. Memory, silence, vulnerability, strength and transformation are recurring elements in my paintings, which often emerge from an instinctive process of layering, erasing, changing and rediscovering.

I graduated in Architecture from the University of Palermo in 1988 and, from 2005 to 2011, attended the Free School of Life Drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo. These experiences shaped my sensitivity to space, balance, the human figure and materials, while painting gradually became the place where I could move beyond rules and measurements and explore a more intimate and instinctive dimension.

I think of my paintings as emotional landscapes. They do not necessarily represent places that exist in the physical world, but rather places we recognize within ourselves. Color is my primary language: sometimes quiet, sometimes intense, sometimes unexpected.

I rarely want to explain everything a painting contains. I prefer to leave space for the viewer to enter the work with their own...

1988 — Degree in Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, University of Palermo, Italy
2005–2011 — Free School of Life Drawing (Scuola Libera del Nudo), Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo, Italy

2026- " Quel giorno che imparai a nuotare"-
Spazio Quattro, Messina Italy
2026-" Quel giorno che imparai a nuotare-Faro di Lingua Salina. Aeolian islands, Italy-September 2026-