Gino Prandina was born in 1961 in Marostica, a small medioeval italian town, not far from Venice.
He is a painter, a designer, an art iournalist and a sacred art advisor.
He lives Vicenza Italy.

"The swarming of nature that is the Blue Hour (G.Bachelard) … the time when the shadows dissolve the form".
The dissolving of all shapes is the true artistic stage in wich Prandina operates between 1980 to 1990. Only in in 1992 he reaches a definite informal result, that is shown in all his waterpaints that have been exhibited in Veneto (his native Region).
The passage from an expressionistic style to a final informal position does not happen hastily, it is more an unconscious and metaphisical action that changes his forms becoming a kind of painting that flyes in bewildered space and timing. A passage then to metaphisics where there are obvius links to a visual poetry, with the handwriting of Apollinaire and with all the cromatic expressions that are alive in all Wols and Fautrier's works are now most present in all his "Blue Hour " waterpaints from 1992 to 1997, and particularly in those from 1995 to 1997.
The overcoming of an informal position is most evident in his works from 1998 to 2002, where it is easy to find an oriental influence as a consequence of what has been learned from the "Pacific school" and the American school of Tobey and Kline, and most of all grateful for that Japanese feeling that has dominated and enchanted many artists since the ending of nineteenth century.
We can now see a parallelism; As the art that had as inspiration Gauguin, Van Gogh and those poetical and light forms of Okusai (died in 1849), also this new generation and joung poetical and oriental feeling, takes as example all Japanese Haiku of Matsuo Basho (1944-1694) and even though it is not as descriptive as normally the the western art is, it still recalls and advises as a flyng wing that with its thoughts penetrates into an infinite space.
This is what this paintings show; A very meaningful form, a gesture made of signs, very calligrafic but most of all very pictorial.
The loss of informality, that means a clear refusel of any contents, bring to an extremely important form of abstract signs.
The blue color cromatically leaves space to other shades, first to a light ochre yellow, almost a light pink, then the ochre becames more and more important until it finally reaches those dark touches that give a specific and most defined sign.
The trend gathes more and more, the gesture becames shorter. And graphically much sharpers, it is now a thrue calligraphy of signs that brings to a deep spiritual feeling in an abstract space.
The calligraphic becames a parallel caracter; all figures and words disappear, only pure signs and space gesture a real "measure of infinity".
These works of art demand a deep meditation because they open a new page to a newly way to perform in art. (Flavia Casagranda - art critic)

Gino Prandina has exibited his works in personal and collective shows in Italy in Vicenza, Bolzano, Milano, Asolo, Possagno, Brescia, Venezia, Firenze, Roma... Either in private or public galleries but in particular in places (like Villas or churches) with a deep atmosphere. Same of his paintings are now shown in same private and public galleries in Italy and foreign countries as well as in same American Universities.