Covers

“... one of the most refined and disciplined artists: his paintings seem to force man to look at himself in this mirror.  Convinced that, beyond appearances and hypocrisy, all human relationships have a simple, direct truth, Pietro rips away our flesh.  First in his mind, then in his paintings.  Once he has understood the graphics solution, he starts getting rid of everything that is useless, everything that his extra, and begins his long and patient struggle against the superfluous.  It is precisely this idea of "taking everything back to the essential" that helps understand the journalistic side of Bestetti, where he has left his sign (apart from his work as publisher, where he created important covers such as “Lo straniero” and “La peste” by Camus or “L'Ulisse” by Joyce, or “Contes et propos” by Quenau for Gallimard and many others...) and worked on a weekly business magazine such as “Il Mondo.” To translate into graphics the abstractions of economics, which are very composite and articulate, with the immediacy which a journalistic message needs, perhaps it really took an artist so dedicated to the essential, who could call up the most complex of scenarios from one simple detail coming using the bare language of symbols.”

Cesare Medail, Milano – 1990