Philadelphia Bulletin - 1967

Dorothy Grafly

Run by artist, Johnny Aiello, “Gallery Pane Vino” is not a run-of-the-mill gallery.

Although it does stage solo of group shows, it likes to get its teeth into something less restricted.

Presently it has organized an exhibition that pairs the work of art with its reproduction to demonstrate visually that, however expert the printer, there is nothing like an original.

Resorting to work by masters, old and modern, and that by living local artists, the show amplifies its contention by presenting not one color reproduction of a specific work, but two or three ---each being slightly different in color value.

Black and white reproduction fares better when confined to drawings—-line or wash---but worse when used in lieu of color.

Simultaneously the gallery offers another explanatory exhibition dealing with the development of a lithograph. Including a process chart, the survey points up the many variations possible in the handling of a particular medium.