Date stamp painting by Federico Pietrella
Born in Rome, Italian typographic artist Federico Pietrella lives and works in Berlin. He creates beautiful paintings, urban landscapes and portraits using rubber date stamp. Meanwhile, his paintings, made from thousands of densely stamped ink dates, from a distance may look like some grainy old black and white photos. Noteworthy, in his enormous ink artworks Pietrella always stamps the current date. Thus each of his pieces contains a clear timeline of the days he worked on it, often spanning two months. Federico Pietrella works in has unique style – date stamp pointillism painting.