Pinto starts to show his work to militant critics his peers; about this experience he writes: “I felt an unbridgeable distance between my approach to the issues experienced and the experiences of the historical avant-garde (Mondrian, Kandinsky, Picasso, Breton, Duchamp) and their approach. In any case, it was essential to exhibit my work to prove its foundation. I was given this book, Mondrian and the Art of the XX Century, by Carlo Ragghianti. In the 70s I went to Florence to show him my work.”
From that moment on his pictorial vocation finds its objectification in the support of admirers and collectors; Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti organizes, in December 1971, his first relevant personal exhibition at “La Strozzina” of Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; proposed again in 1972 at the Center of Visual Art of Palazzo dei Diamanti, in Ferrara (directed by Franco Farina), then at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia of Venice (commissioned by Giuseppe Mazzariol), and in the same year also at the Center of Cultural Initiatives in Pordenone, coordinated by the architect Glauco Glesleri (see Solo Exhibitions).
Pinto obtains his first contract with the Gallery “Idea” of Luigi Bellini in Florence.