Press
Biographies, images and contact
Key facts
- Artist name
- Dinelli
- Practice
- Painter
- Studio
- Paris
- Series
- Paris Rooftops, Habitats (since 2010), Luminous Habitats (since 2023)
- Media
- Pastel; oil on crumpled canvas set with resin; oil-painted scenes printed on backlit plexiglass
- Exhibitions
- New York, Tokyo, Milan, Hong Kong, Zürich, Moscow, Warsaw, Paris
Short biography
Dinelli is a painter based in Paris. She paints façades and rooftops in oil, then crumples the canvas and sets it in resin: her paintings become reliefs, somewhere between painting and sculpture. Her series Paris Rooftops, Habitats and Luminous Habitats have been shown in galleries in New York, Tokyo, Milan, Hong Kong, Zürich and Paris.
Long biography
After studying photography and the arts, Dinelli worked in Paris as a graphic designer in advertising, then turned to sculpture, her first passion. During a two-year stay in Bali she taught modelling there.
Back in Paris in 2000, she worked in pastel on the theme of architecture in motion. Her series Paris Rooftops and Rooftops of the World earned her numerous awards, in France and abroad.
Since 2010 she has been painting contemporary Habitats in oil: post-war housing estates, graffitied suburban towers, roofs of zinc and chimney pots. She paints, folds, crumples and sets façades and rooftops. These relief canvases question the durability of architecture, between the temptation of the disposable and a fascination with forms and materials.
Since 2023 the Luminous Habitats have extended this work: buildings at night, an oil-painted scene behind every window, printed on translucent plexiglass and lit from behind.
Images
1,200-pixel JPEG images, for use in an article or programme about the artist, credited “© Dinelli”. Higher-resolution files are sent on request.
- Paris Rooftops – Montmartre · Oil on crumpled canvas
- Paris Rooftops – Les Abbesses 2 · Oil on crumpled canvas
- Paris Rooftops – Haussmann 2 · Oil on crumpled canvas
- Tours Nuages – Pablo Picasso · Oil on crumpled canvas in a plexiglass box
- Choux de Créteil 2 · Oil on crumpled canvas
- Tour Marseille · Oil on crumpled canvas
- Habitats 104 · Oil-painted scenes, printed on translucent plexiglass, LED backlighting
- Habitats 107 · Oil-painted scenes, printed on translucent plexiglass, LED backlighting
Press contact
Through the contact form or at dinelli@wanadoo.fr. Exhibitions and press coverage are listed on the Exhibitions page.