"There are human events that, although necessarily taking place in a certain time, do not adhere to its pressing progress, do not manage to inscribe in its arc the stages of their evolution towards the goal. One would rather think that in each point the inner vector of such existences tends to deviate from the straight line. [… ]
The nature of this block cannot be defined in a formula, but it can be said that, in general, it results in an event that cannot be understood by a simple act of intellect. The same is, I think, for the human and artistic story of Bruno Pinto. [… ] The fact is that Pinto’s artistic feat indicates a direction hardly compatible with the assumptions of experimentalism of the last century.
His painting has rather an archaic trait, alien to any psychologism or lyricism or conceptualism. What is manifested in his works is the expression of a contemplative act in which the otherness of subject and object tends to result in a cognitive relationship, or in the recognition that the other, the object really exists, not as a mere appearance of manipulable forms, but as an existing which challenges the subject and forces him to become aware of the nature of his will.
Thus an ascetic exercise by which the builders of the mind and the impulsive reactions of the will are stopped and reduced to silence. [… ]"
Giancarlo Gaeta, "Bruno Pinto", I Martedì n.1- (Bologna 2004), p. 3