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Artist Statement -



Elio Stefano PASTORE was born in Turin (Italy), where he lives and works. He has got a degree in Law, and works in the communication field for a big public company acquiring a twenty-year experience in that sector. He started using PC in 1998 for creative necessities relating to his job, discovering little by little its fascinating power and making it a trustful and indispensable tool.
Fond of photography, travels and mountains, he has often put together these interests, getting numerous awards in photography contests and publishing his picture stories on different magazines.
His artistic life - started in 1992 - has found in the digital art his ideal medium of expression; infact the digital art allows him to draw inspiration from the objectivity but to filter it through his personal life, so transforming it in an ideal and essential reality, spread through an emotionally intimate atmosphere. From this synergy between a personal sensibility and a technical mastery, were born pictorial imagines devoid of modern references and contaminations, creating a world with no time suspended between magic realism and poetry.
Starting from the year 2000, from the original production, he has led in a parallel way, a personal research on forms and colours, freeing himself from the pre-set bonds, exploring the creative and artistic possibilities of the digital drawing. This experience, still going on, has its start from the generation of fractals, then elaborated and expressed in a pictorial form.
In the last period he has experimented both a return to figuration, no more originated from a previous automatic release of a camera, but directly created as a virtual reality with the computer, and a contamination of different genres and particularly between the fractal art and the figurative art.
From 1994 he shows his works in over 60 personal and collective exhibitions.
He have been invited by the City of Turin to held a workshop on the digital art, during the display "WEB DAYS 2003".
One of his works of Art has been chosen by the Treccani Encyclopedia Institute to show the item "Computer Art" on the "Encyclopedia for Children".
Numerous of his works has been published on cover of books, magazines and posters.
Elio Pastore is a member of Promotrice delle Belle arti in Turin.
Website: www.eliopastore.it

Museum and public collections, galleries:
Town Modern Art Gallery "A. Bonzagni", Cento, Italy
The Research Archives of grafisk vaerksted, Naestved (Denmark)
Château des Réaux, Chouzé sur Loire (Francia)
Americas Biennial Archive, University of Jowa (USA)
Centro Culturale ZeroUno Art Gallery, Barletta, Italy
Vivi Arte Viva Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
Curcio Art Gallery, Borgaro Torinese, Italy
Bis Art Gallery, Buttigliera Alta, Italy
Cenacolo Casorati Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
Saint James Old Church, Biella, Italy
Parish Cathedral Church of Turin, Italy

Artist Exhibitions



Main solo exhibitions:
2013 Piemonte Artistico Culturale Gallery, Turin, Italy
2011 Casa Scozia, Trarego Viggiona (VB), Italy
2010 Piemonte Artistico Culturale Gallery, Turin, Italy
2009 Cloister of Annunziata Church, Turin, Italy
2008 Cavassa House, Carmagnola, Italy
2008 ZeroUno Cultural Center, Barletta, Italy
2007 Town Gallery Opesso Palace, Chieri, Italy
2006 A.T.L. Lanzo Torinese, Italy
2005 E.d.P. Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
2005 Kadipa's Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
2003 Web Days 2003, Turin, Italy
2002 Spina Reale, Turin, Italy
2002 Bis Art Gallery, Buttigliera Alta, Italy
2001 Maché Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
2001 Tom Thumb Cultural Center, Turin, Italy

Main group exhibitions:
2006-2013 Annual exhibitions Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
2012 La Conchiglia Gallery, Turin, Italy
2012 Villa Giulia, Verbania (Italy)
2012 Festival della Scienza Genova, Italy
2012 Galleria Torino Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
2012 Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte, Turin, Italy
2012 Regione Piemonte, Turin, Italy
2012 Spazio Arte Castello, Turin, Italy
2012 Venice Biennale - Padiglione Italia Turin, Italy
2011 Barolo Palace, Turin, Italy
2011 Oddo Palace, Albenga, Italy
2011 Unique Gallery, Turin, Italy
2011 Fondazione De Nittis, Barletta, Italy
2011 E.d.P. Gallery, Turin, Italy
2010 Opera Damanhour and Qalyoubyia (Egypt)
2010 Saluzzo Art 2010, Saluzzo, Italy
2010 Villa Gualino, Turin, Italy
2009 Olympic Village, Turin, Italy
2009 Château des Réaux, Chouzé sur Loire, France
2009 Olympic Village, Turin, Italy
2009 Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte, Turin, Italy
2009 Turin Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
2009 Charles V Castle, Lecce, Italy
2009 Estense Castle, Ferrara, Italy
2008 Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
2009 Villa Gualino, Turin, Italy
2008 Cenacolo Casorati, Turin, Italy
2008 University of Jowa, Jowa City, Jowa, USA
2008 Roennebaeksholm Arts and Culture Center, Naestved, Denmark
2008 Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
2008 Circolo Ufficiali, Turin, Italy
2008 Sale del Bramante, Rome, Italy
2007 Cavallerizza Reale, Turin, Italy
2007 Expo Center, Rivarolo, Italy
2007 Salotto dell'Arte Gallery, Turin, Italy
2007 Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
2007 Lab 610 XL Gallery, Sovramonte, Italy
2007 Aripa Gallery, Turin, Italy
2007 Town Modern Art Gallery "A. Bonzagni", Cento, Italy
2007 Piemonte Artistico Culturale Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
2006 Cenacolo Felice Casorati Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
2006 Sulla parola Cultural Center, Turin, Italy
2006 Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
2006 Sala Arte Curcio, Borgaro Torinese, Italy
2006 Acaja Castle, Fossano, Italy
2006 ZeroUno Cultural Center, Barletta, Italy
2006 Vivi Arteviva Gallery, Turin, Italy
2005 Metamorfosi Art Gallery, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2005 Cenacolo Felice Casorati Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
2004 Alba Art Gallery, Ferrara, Italy
2004 Arte Immagini Art Gallery, Cremona, Italy
2004 Visual Art Legue, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
2004 MOCA - Museum of Computer Art, Cork Gallery - Lincoln Center
New York City, USA
2001 La Telaccia Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
2000 Antica cooperativa Borgo Po e decoratori, Turin, Italy
1999 Ass. culturale Il belvedere, Villanova Mondovì, Italy
1999 Ass. culturale Lionetto, Mondovì, Italy
1999 Ass. culturale De Amicis, Turin, Italy
1999 Ass. culturale Casseta Popular, Grugliasco, Italy
1998 S. Donato Art Gallery, Genova, Italy
1996 CRAL City of Turin, Turin, Italy
1994 Villa Tesoriera, Turin, Italy...

Artist Publications



(italian language): www.eliopastore.it/critica.htm...

Artist Collections



Numerous private, corporate, museum, gallery and government collections detailed information coming soon.

Artist Favorites



Personal Favorites



Personal info and favorite links and sites coming soon.