Carlo Pittore | Portland Press Herald
April 16, 2023 | Jorge Arango
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The exhibit includes many of Pittore’s anti-war collages and drawings, hung salon-style on an inner L-shaped wall. There is strength in numbers here in terms of impact. His revulsion and scathing anger about this human folly are palpable. Like the video, the show careers from mood to mood, presenting an incredibly rich, full portrait of an artist who appeared vigorously engaged in life, yet must have been deeply vulnerable beneath the veneer of the identity he peddled in the world. Pittore could not have painted so sensitively and tenderly without that awareness of his own vulnerability, no matter how loudly he performed for his friends and his public.
