Pino Deodato
Milan, 1950
The starting point for the works of the Italian artist Pino Deodato is real life. The artist constantly seeks inspiration from personal experiences and scenes of everyday life to create works with a dreamlike dimension, which can be likened to a form of magical realism. He embraces the search for detail, guiding the viewer on a journey at the border between dream and reality, metaphors and allegories, mosaics of stories and narratives, diaries of life and existences. Deodato's work is a journey towards introspection and the most intimate reflection, an invitation to conquer the space that each individual has, and must have, in the universe.
Pino Deodato was born in Nao, Vibo Valentia, in 1950. In 1969, he moved to Milan, where he attended the Accademia di Brera and came into contact with some prominent figures of Milanese art, becoming an assistant to Giangiacomo Spadari. In the 1970s, Deodato immersed himself in the French artistic environment, a period in which culture walked hand in hand with political and social events. Around these themes, he developed his artistic creations, which he later began to exhibit in Italy and abroad, bringing his artistic message to an increasingly broad audience.
In the early 1980s, the artist primarily worked with the Galleria Gastaldelli, exhibiting in numerous public and private spaces, including Il Milione, Cardi, Klerks, Progettoarte ELM (Milan), Cristofori (Bologna), Narciso (Turin), Poleschi (Lucca), Art Events (Benevento), Susanna Orlando (Pietrasanta and Forte dei Marmi), Ambrosino (Miami), Foro Italico (Rome), Museo Paolo Pini, Fondazione Pomodoro (Milan), Contemporary Art Platform (Kuwait City), and Galleria Melesi (Lecco).
Since the 1990s, Deodato's artistic expression has been characterized by magical realism, which, drawing inspiration from the folds of his memory, gives rise to true metaphors of life. This journey continues into the new millennium: Deodato, an humanist and alchemist of the image, continues to narrate the story of humanity with a gaze that is both severe and gentle, sharp and poetic, open to the wonderful and the fantastic. His work presents itself as an invitation to reflect, to explore the boundary between what is real and what is dream, creating a profound dialogue between the artist, his experiences, and the public. Currently, Pino Deodato lives and works in Milan.
