Alessandro Nastasio Biography
Alessandro Nastasio was born in Milan in 1934. In 1947 the Albanian painter Hibraim Kodra understood his native dispositions for figurative expression and started him in search of his own original artistic path. After having already achieved promising results due to the happy fluency of his expressive sign, in 1952 he followed the "free school of the nude", held by Aldo Salvatori. In 1966-67 he obtained the professorship at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and for thirty years he dedicated himself to teaching Art Education in various schools. In 1960 he attended Giorgio Upilio's Atelier where Giacometti, Lam, Fontana, De Chirico worked, and had the opportunity to study their themes, inspiring myths and expressive technical language. He refined his instinctive manual skills, which he would always generously put at the service of his artistic world, first at the MAF foundry with the master Tullio Figini who explained to him the secrets of Renaissance lost wax casting and met the masters Crocetti, Manfrini, Manzu' , Minguzzi, Fabbri, then moving to Quinto de Stampi to the De Andreis foundry where Marino Marini, Pomodoro, Rudy Wach, Strebelle, Negri and Rosental operate. An assiduous reader of the great wisdom texts of antiquity, he trained in particular on the Bible, which he illustrated with woodcuts, aquatints, etchings and linocuts, especially the Song of Songs, the book of Ecclesiastes and several pages of the Gospels, but he He also drew his inspiration from the philosophical-religious tradition of the Eastern world through the reading of Rig-Veda, Upanisad and Rumi's Matnavi. An assiduous and passionate researcher of the invisible structures that give cohesion and meaning to the entire phenomenological dimension of existence, he has constantly moved on the trail of the sacredness and secret mystery of things, of the archetypes that represent the laws of becoming, of essences and of the principles that from the pages of fairy tales, myths and epics he has tried to transpose into images always surrounded by a great fairy-tale halo and imbued with extraordinary evocative and allusive charm.
