Born on February 17th, 1943, Vittorio Matino grew up in the province of Venice and graduated from the Bologna College of Art in 1962. After early paintings in the figurative social expressionist tradition, a brief transitional period (1967-1970), when he was inspired by Matisse, Klee and created a dialogue with his immediate Italian predecessors, such as Licini and Tancredi, which led him to develop a totally abstract form of artistic expression. Vittorio Matino's research relating to the transparency of color and the play of light is inspired by the Venetian School, combined with the powerful abstractive luminosity of painters such as Pierre Bonnard and Mark Rothko. It is clear that his pictorial research explores all possible interconnected relations between light and color. Matino's approach to Abstract Art is neither Expressionistic nor informal nor purely geometric, but rather highly structured through the use of a formal framework and a harmony of color. These latter elements are not pre-determined by the artist but the loom out of the canvas itself and gradually accumulate during the course of execution.