/ Italy
Le Alpi e temporale, 2020
ink on fabric on cardboard
cm 38 × 42
painting and illustration
first prize
An essential, almost brutal technique, made of gestures and iconemes (the house, the tree…) but also capable of great delicacy, traces a new dimension of participation in the world, strangely postimpressionist. The reference to Japanese art is not surprising, nor is the need to immerse oneself in a heavily man-made landscape such as that of Monferrato, in which nevertheless man has found a peculiar connection with atmospheric phenomena and natural cycles.
Sandro Pastorino (1957) was born in Millesimo (Savona). He lives and works in Monferrato (Piedmont). Before moving to the Piedmont hills, Pastorino worked in Genoa, especially with site-specific installations produced with industrial materials. Beginning in 2000, the artist pondered a kind of withdrawal from the scenes and public life, also deeply reconsidering the tools of his artistic action. He returns to using almost exclusively India ink and collage. This new dimension, intimate and domestic but also more in tune with the rhythms of the cosmos and nature, filters through a personal experience of the landscape, digested through moods and restlessness and returned through memory. An essential, almost brutal technique, made of gestures and iconemes (the house, the tree…) but also capable of great delicacy, traces a new dimension of participation in the world, strangely postimpressionist. The reference to Japanese art is not surprising, nor is the need to immerse oneself in a heavily man-made landscape such as that of Monferrato, in which nevertheless man has found a peculiar connection with atmospheric phenomena and natural cycles.