At the centre of Pino Deodato's sculptural and pictorial work there is always the man: a simplified, stylis ed man, always intent on strange and mysterious solitary occupations. It is man reduced to his purest essence, lost in the mystery of his own individuality, the man who seeks his own way and his own sense of being in the world and relating to his fellows. Those of Deodato are poetic and enigmatic visual stories, fables of the everyday in which we can identify ourselves for their alienating lyricism, very delicate theatrical pieces with shaded and surreal contours, always and only built with a few symbolic elements: a forest, a garden, a bed, a room, a tree, a wardrobe, or, at times, the whole world on which man himself, light and ephemeral, finds himself walking, lonely and disoriented.
Pino Deodato
Artists
The poetics of Deodato are above all linked to the elementary simplicity of everyday objects and actions, full of stories and humanity. "I try to tackle complex issues in a simple way," says the artist, "to make difficult topics accessible to everyone." For Galleria Vik Milano, Deodato has created an installation comprising of around thirty small sculptures linked one to the other by technique (the works are all made of ceramic) and by the great poetry of the subjects: men and women taken in silent meditations, in reciprocal exchange of gestures of affection or agreement, in mysterious conversations with animals.
Pino Deodato was born in Nao, Vibo Valentia, in 1950. He arrived in Milan in 1969, where he lives and works.
Since his youth he has attracted the attention of critics, exhibiting in important exhibitions in Europe dedicated to the new Italian art. Since the 1980s his production, divided between pictorial and sculptural activity, has been exhibited in public museums and important private Italian galleries as well as in festivals and public events dedicated to urban installations.