Cristina Lastrego

Biography of Cristina Làstrego

I was born in Italy, in Castello d'Annone, near Asti, in my grandfather's kiln.
From a very young age I loved to play with clay and unbaked bricks, which I used to make constructions of many different shapes.
I would take over grandfather's ledgers on which were old accounts rendered useless by the passage of time, and I would draw on them all the barnyard animals I saw around me.
When I was five, I left for Argentina with my parents to join a sculptor uncle who had had to leave Italy years earlier because he had dared to expose himself and had been persecuted by the fascists.
My life, in Buenos Aires, changed: from the countryside I had moved to a large metropolis that impressed me with its size and whose cultural vibrancy I would later appreciate.
In the Buenos Aires newspapers, comics had an important space. When I lived there as a young girl, they also had Héctor Oesterheld writing the Ernie Pike story, Hugo Pratt drawing it, and then Mordillo, Quino, Oski...
My dad had built a rudimentary machine for me to project images, and I would draw comic stories on transparent paper and then organize shows with my friends....

I studied for four years in Buenos Aires, and in the meantime I was ...

Graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Turin

Lecturer at the Faculty of Education, University of Turin

A solo exhibition entitled "The Joy of Creation" was organized by the Bottari - Lattes Foundation within its premises. The exhibition took place in Monforte d'Alba in 2011. Beyond the works exhibited in the halls, my peparati characters for the series of animated drawings "Marco Polo" were present in the streets of the village inform of blow-ups.
Another solo exhibition entitled "Prestige Games" was organized by the municipality of Bra inside the Mathis Palace, took place in 2013-2014. It was an anthological exhibition developed in the spacious rooms of the soric building. In addition to the regular public, it was visited by pupils from all schools in the city.
In 2018, on the occasion of the awarding of the "Pulcinella Award" for the achievements of the Lastrego&Testa Multimedia company, for which I take care of the artistic direction, RAI Com organized an exhibition of my drawings in the atrium of the Palazzo Carignano in Turin. The drawings on display were those used for the creation of animated drawings co-produced with RAI Fiction.
The National Museum of Cinema, in 2019, organized within its premises at the Mole Antonelliana in Turin, the exhibition "From Italy to China," referring in particular to the collaboration with Ch...