The Darkly Erotic Fairy Tales of the Italian Artist Simone Pinna

Winged beauties adorned with feelers and equipped with insect-like limbs. Simone Pinna’s graphite drawings evoke a fairy-tale world full of strong sexual references and often with a darker subtext.

Erotic Fairies

The hybrid, mainly female figures (he names them ‘erotic fairies‘) are alternately playful and vulnerable. They inhabit a world where phallus-shaped mushrooms and other ‘sensual’ crops are recurring ingredients, becoming part of their erotic fantasies.

Fig.1. ‘Holes Hotel ‘ (January 2019)

Right Emotion

In an earlier interview the passionate Italian artist explains that he has to induce the right emotion for himself in order to draw. Lines, shades, lights, dynamics, forms, are all the elements that arise instinctively. Therefore his drawings are labor-intensive. The drawing entitled ‘Holes-Hotel ‘ (Fig.1) for instance took him over a month to complete.

H.R. Giger

An important influence on Pinna is the work of the Swiss artist H.R Giger (1940-2014), known for the portrayal of human bodies and machines in bleak, complementary relationships, and famous for his Oscar-winning creation of the Alien creature in the film of the same name.

Fig.2. ‘Sunflowers‘ (October 2020)

Beastly Elements

While Pinna’s work is erotically charged, it’s not necessarily sexually arousing (at least in my opinion) because of the added beastly elements. My personal preference is for Pinna’s dark works such as the fairy tied up on the bed (Fig.3) or the desperate naked girl in the attic (Fig.5). On the other hand, who can resist a rabbit-woman intensely suckling one of her feet (Fig.10)?

Fig.3. ‘The Fairy Collector‘ (October 2020)

Fig.4. ‘Fairies‘ (2020)

Fig.5. ‘Broken‘ (2020)

Fig.6. ‘Devotion‘

Fig.7. ‘Erotic Fairies‘ (August 2020)

Fig.8. ‘White Cicade‘

Fig.9. ‘Fire-fairy‘

Fig.10. ‘Rabbit Burrow‘

Fig.11. ‘Wishing Well‘

Fig.12. ‘Carotona‘

Fig.13. ‘Happy Bee‘ (July 2020)

Fig.14. ‘Chess Teacher‘ (July 2020)

Fig.15. ‘Scolopendra‘

Fig.16. ‘Mole Cricket‘ (Apr 2020)

Fig.17. ‘The Prince‘ (Feb 2020)

Fig.18. (2018)

Fig.19. ‘Femme Fatale‘ (2018)

Fig.20. ‘Fin Fetish‘

Fig.21. ‘Mato di donna (Queen checkmate)‘ (2019)

Fig.22. ‘Janas‘ (Apr 2020)

Fig.23. ‘White Wasp‘

Fig.24. ‘Flight Calibration‘ (April 2020)

Fig.25. ‘Daisies for the Queen‘ (Nov 2020)

Fig.26. ‘Spirifex Shoe‘ (Nov 2020)

Fig.27. ‘Man Hawk Wasp‘ (April 2020)

Fig.28. ‘The Princess Unicorn‘ (Jan 2020)

Fig.29. ‘Pussy in Boots‘ (Dec 2019)

Fig.30. ‘Bee‘ (2019)

Fig.31. ‘Camouflage‘ (2019)

Fig.32. ‘Mermaid Lure‘ (2019)

Fig.33. ‘Torn off‘ (23 Dec 2020)

Fig.34. ‘Scorpion‘ (1 January 2021)

Fig.35. ‘Man hawk wasp‘ (13 Jan 2021)

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