Pino Deodato Nao (Vibo Valentia) 1950. Lives and works in Milan, where he arrived in 1969.
After obtaining his high school diploma in art, he attended the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and came into contact with some exponents of Milanese art, later becoming assistant to the artist Giangiacomo Spadari.
He later became acquainted with the French artistic environment: these were the Seventies, a time in which culture went hand in hand with political and social events. Around these contents, Deodato developed his artistic creations that he began to exhibit in Italy and abroad.
In the early 1980s he worked mainly with the Galleria Gastaldelli, later exhibiting in multiple public and private spaces: Il Milione, Cardi, Klerks, Progettoarte ELM (Milan), Cristofori (Bologna), Narciso (Turin), Claudio Poleschi (Lucca), Art Events (Benevento), Susanna Orlando (Pietrasanta and Forte dei Marmi) Ambrosino (Miami), Foro Italico (Rome), Museo Paolo Pini, Fondazione Pomodoro (Milan) Contemporary Art Platform (Kuwait City).
Since the 1990s, Deodato’s artistic expression has been characterized by a magical realism that, finding inspiration in the folds of his memory, gives rise to true metaphors of life.
This path continues in the new millennium: Deodato, humanist and alchemist of the image, always in transit between sculpture and painting, continues to narrate the history of man with a stern and gentle, acute and poetic gaze, open to the marvelous and the fantastic.