Pastorino’s work stands out
mainly on account of the artist’s technical development
in the field of photography, which includes designing and mounting
his own cameras or using ancient printing techniques.
In this show, however, technical artifice shifts to the background
and the artist revalues the gaze of the photographer who selects
realities.
Working within a genre with such a long ancestry as landscape painting,
more precisely the depiction of forests, Pastorino offers a tour
along 12 years of production during which he has photographed these
spaces recurrently. The exhibition is not only a visual tour of
forests that are geographically distant but it also reviews the
different techniques that the author has explored throughout his
career, and that range from black-and-white prints, through bird’s-eye
views shot with different cameras of his own making, to stereoscopic
photography. The photographs of these uninhabited spaces, where time appears to have
stood still, resume the historical tradition of landscape, proposing a reflection
on the ephemeral and the permanent.
