01 · Painting
Piazza at Noon
Acrylic and red earth on linen, 120 × 150 cm
€7,400
AvailableAcrylic and red earth on linen, 120 × 150 cm
Sinopia is two painters and a printing table in an old tram depot. We make paintings, screen prints and murals, and every one of them is drawn first in red.
We draw everything twice. First in red, to find it. Then in paint, to keep it. The red never fully leaves. Look closely at any canvas from this studio and you will find it under the colour, still holding the picture up.
Ilaria Conte & Tomás Reyes
The collection, 2023–26
Hover a work to see the drawing under it. Open one to compare the two side by side.
How a painting gets made
Four stages, the same four every time. Scroll through them and the still life on the left goes from red earth to varnish.
Stage 01 · Sinopia
Showing stage 01, Sinopia.
- 012 to 4 days
Sinopia
The drawing goes down in red earth, squared up from a pocket sketch with a lettered grid. Every line is a decision we can still take back.
- 021 week
Ground
Flat fields of colour, mixed in one batch big enough to finish the piece. We never mix the same colour twice, so we never have to match it.
- 032 to 6 weeks
Layer
Shadow, pattern and the halftone grain, built up in thin coats. This is where a picture stops being a diagram and starts to be weather.
- 043 days
Varnish
A satin varnish, the signature on the stretcher, and a certificate with the original sinopia printed on the back. You get the first decision too.
Commissions · 4 open slots for 2027
Choose a size and see it on a wall next to a person. You approve the red drawing before we open a single tube, and you pay nothing until you do.
175 cm
Wall view · 4.2 m
Estimate
€
Ready in
weeks
30% when you approve the sinopia drawing, the rest on delivery. Shipping in the EU is included.
Shows, walls and releases
Six years of rooms, from a basement in Basel to a nine-metre wall on Via Fondazza.
- 2026Sinopia I–VISpazio Rosso, Bologna · Solo show
- 2025Red EarthKunsthal Øst, Copenhagen · Group show
- 2025Arcade for Via FondazzaComune di Bologna, Bologna · Public wall
- 2024The Watcher, edition of 40Printed Matter Fair, Lisbon · Print release
- 2024Under the ColourGalerie Halde, Basel · Two-person show
- 2023Tide TableHarbour Arts Week, Marseille · Print release
Visit the studio
Come and see what's on the easels. Work in progress, the flat files of prints, and coffee from the bar across the street. No appointment needed, and nobody will try to sell you anything.
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- Sat11–18
- SunClosed
Address
Via del Pratello 41
40122 Bologna, Italy
Write to us
studio@sinopia.art