Oreste M. G. Debernardi is recognized as one of the pioneers of relational art in Italy. 

As a  writer, he is associated with the autonarrative paradigm, being an original researcher in many fields, educator, and civil rights activist.
Some of books, stemming from his relational works or disseminating their results, offer a representation of the dynamics that arise when we are emotionally involved or driven by the unconscious.
His social and artistic experiences and projects delve into the theme of learning, also on an emotional level.
Oreste navigates through multiple experiential fields. As talented musician and composer from an early age, he wins a composition award before the age of twelve. As a teenager, he experiences the contradictions of Italian society in the 1970s, but also absorbs the values, moral principles, and culture of his family and the community of artists he frequents.
In his formative years, he realizes the importance of breaking away from old metaphors and, anticipating the times, he surpasses the linear, conformist, depersonalizing educational model to adopt an organic, personal approach, calibrated to his own need for knowledge, aiming for permanent evolution, fueled by his tachypsychism and need for originality. He seeks to find the most suitable conditions within which to develop his own knowledge.
Oreste customizes his own education since high school, developing original cognitive solutions, and then seeking external support for his university studies in excellent faculties.
By adopting a decidedly divergent and lateral critical thinking, he approaches the situationist thought in Bologna, where he studies  semiotics, following the courses of Umberto Eco and Paolo Fabbri.
After a period in Padua with Lacanian psychoanalysts, he becomes fascinated by computer science and follows the advent of microinformatics from its beginnings, favored by the frequentation of operational researchers in international computer research centers.
Some insights in the financial field and the assumption of family responsibilities lead him soon to a condition of economic well-being.
Through an unorthodox cognitive drift, he reaches numerous disciplinary fields, largely dealing with

of psychoanalytic critique, epistemology, analysis of complex dynamic systems in recursive interaction with the observer.
Thanks to his baggage of skills and knowledge, he is welcomed (by professors Paola Bora and Lorenzo Foà, under the direction of professor Salvatore Settis) as a free researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he conducts original research for years in the field of neurosciences, studying in particular the mechanisms that regulate cognitive and affective activities. With a transdisciplinary approach, he is interested in border areas and blind spots of observation typical of analytical methods, whether traditional or avant-garde.
Oreste elaborates and successfully experiments with original methodologies in psychoanalytic, didactic, and pedagogical fields.
The results of his research on learning and affectivity are applied to the study of the interaction of the hypothalamic system with the immune system.
With his move to Berlin, he directly enters the world of contemporary art, expanding the reference frame of his projects.
They investigate the intricacies of subjectivity, the mechanisms of creativity, and the fields of intrapsychic and interpersonal.
"Oreste's words and actions touch my soul, free my mind, calm my heart, and energize my action," said someone Oreste has worked with.

How to interpret a pluripotential person

Usually dominant cultures lead towards one-dimensional models of evolution, but if we are born gifted, talented, and creative, if we are curious in different fields, if we are divergent, eclectic, cultivate multiple interests, tend to adopt various identities and cannot find a single one to recognize ourselves in, we risk not being understood by conventional people.

Furthermore, we risk having our ability to dedicate ourselves to multiple activities simultaneously perceived as abnormal, receiving images from simpler subjects than ourselves, which paint us as people afflicted with disorders because we do not focus on a specific goal or do not commit ourselves for long to a single vocation, being seen as fickle, ephemeral, or even self-sabotaging in our practice, as unable to pursue a personal direction. The idea of a life focused on a specific field is often idealized, based on the assumption that the existential goal should be unique or that a particular destiny or a single vocation capable of guiding us in life is reserved for us. During the Renaissance, being inclined towards multiple disciplines was considered among the best conditions.

A subject with many interests and creative occupations is a person with many potentials like the Renaissance man. Having pluripotentiality is not a limitation or a gap to be filled but bestows powers, such as the ability to synthesize ideas, i.e., the ability to combine several fields, creating something new in the intersection area between them.

Innovation arises precisely in these intersection areas thanks to a mix of abilities and experiences. Another power is adaptability, the ability to transform into anything that a given situation requires. Assuming different roles depending on the needs is adaptability, essential in a world that changes quickly and unpredictably. Another power is the ability to learn quickly, thanks to tachypsychism and an extroverted sensitivity. When a pluripotential subject is interested in something, they deepen it rapidly; curiosity and attention lead them to quickly master that topic, without any fear of facing the new. They can transfer knowledge between different disciplines and pour what they have learned into every new area they dedicate themselves to, rarely starting from scratch, and achieve unpredictable results. In these three abilities,

Oreste is a master and, compared to those who have chosen to focus their efforts on a single direction, he is more suitable to face a contemporary society where complex and multidimensional problems arise. A creative, out-of-the-box thinker is much more useful in tackling them to produce new ideas than a specialist capable only of digging deep and implementing such ideas. Oreste has built his life in line with his nature, even though non-pluripotential people have often encouraged him to become a specialist. 

As a pluripotential person, he preferred to embrace his passions, follow his curiosity, explore his intersections because he knew that only by respecting his inner dimension would he live a satisfying and authentic life.