Josep Maria Pastó

This 61-year-old artist lives and develops his creative work in Catalonia. Although his professional career has been focused on Information Technologies, from a young age he has maintained a constant connection with drawing and sculpture, training both in private academies and at the School of Applied Arts and Artistic Crafts of Tàrrega.

His work stems from a need for expression and an innate curiosity that has led him to dismantle all kinds of objects in order to understand their inner workings. This inquisitiveness drove him to create his first Interpretations: sculptures born from dismantled machine parts, reassembled according to aesthetic criteria, always keeping the original pieces and using authentic screws and springs to join them.

Currently, his work focuses on the assemblage of recycled and everyday elements—such as butane cylinders, golf clubs or frying pans—transforming them into semi-realistic sculptures. Wood, clay and assemblage remain his main artistic languages, through which he explores new creative paths based on reuse and transformation.