Paolo Pasotto Biography
Paolo Pasotto (Bologna, 4 September 1930 – Bologna, 18 November 2015) was an Italian painter, philosopher, sculptor, anthroposophist, actor and playwright. He was a pupil of Virgilio Guidi who will present his first solo exhibition. He began his pictorial activity at the end of the 1950s. His art, which is originally figurative, evolves towards a painting that stands out compared to the Informal of the latest Bolognese Naturalism, an art defined as Metanaturalism. Pasotto's Metanaturalism is an attitude of evoking matter through the creation of soft folds and ripples. A painting, that of Pasotto's Metanaturalism, in which ghosts float, images suspended between figuration and abstraction. The desire is to evoke carnal identification between the forms in a pre-logical vision. His painting with shades where the earth colors and browns of the first period predominate evolves in the last period towards a painting where light waxy shades are present. The Umbrian critic Apollonio wrote about Paolo Pasotto's art in 1963: "It could be said that the painter remains equidistant both from visible and objective appearances and from the disturbances generated in his soul. (..) The result is an organism whose system is built step by step, slowly and within an impending silence, but also with resolute mastery of the motif that inspires it (..) Compared to the multiple revivals of the informal technique, these paintings represent a more imaginary, almost, proposal of order a rationalized version of surreal suggestions, where the terms of the discourse flow with unassailable calm and the transparencies only give repressed thrills."
