Philippe Pastor (born 1961) is a Monegasque artist. An

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, his work has been exhibited in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States. A participant of the 2007

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, he represents Monaco's art scene at the

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Early life

Pastor was born in 1961 in Monaco. His father,

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, was a billionaire real estate developer. His paternal grandfather, Gildo Pastor, developed most of the residential buildings along Monaco's coastline. He has two brothers, Jean-Victor and Patrice, and a sister, Marie-Helene. Following his father's death with a net wealth of $5.4 billion, ''

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'' considers each of his four children to be billionaires. He is self-taught.

Career

Pastor creates art in a barn on the hills of Monaco. He also works in

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and

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, near

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, Spain.Le Monégasque Philippe Pastor, artiste engagé au service de la nature
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'', 3 August 2014Nuria Navarro
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''El Periódico de Catalunya'', 24 November 2013 His main theme is the interaction of man with nature in our postmodern, virtual society. He is an abstract expressionist.unlearning intolerance: Art changing attitudes towards the environment
United Nations For his paintings, he uses pigments on large canvases, and sometimes adds dead leaves and twigs. In Monaco, his work can be seen at Monaco Modern’Art, Le Formentor, alongside the work of Marcelline Lapouffe. Overseas, his work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in France, Italy, Spain, Kenya and the United States. It was also shown at the 2007 Vienna Biennale. His work has been auctioned by Christie's. Since 2003, Pastor has collected burned wood from the forest of La Garde-Freinet and made sculptures with them to draw attention to the fact that every year, forests are caught on fire on Southern France, Italy and Spain. As part of the United Nations Environment Programme, these sculptures, called "Burned Trees", have been exhibited permanently at the United Nations Office at Nairobi since 2006, and at the Nice Côte d'Azur Airport in Southern France. They were also exhibited in Singapore in 2007. That same year, he founded the Art & Environnement Association. In 2014, the sculptures were exhibited at the Gare du Nord in Paris, in partnership with the Nicolas Hulot, Fondation Nicolas Hulot.Margaux Rolland
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in Milan, Italy, he was the main artist representing Monaco's artscene.

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