Paolo Contin - L'ultimo grido delle cicale

Paolo Contin
The Last Cry of the Cicadas
Acrylic on canvas - 67 x 100 x 0.1 cm
Certificate of authenticity with date and authentic signature on the back of the canvas.
The painting will be shipped rolled inside a sturdy cardboard tube.
shipments to countries outside the European Community are not accepted due to high costs.

"The Last Cry of the Cicadas": a contemporary abstract work built through geometric fields, overlays, and tactile marks. The deep blues of the upper part progressively meet yellows, oranges, and intense reds, evoking the landscape between sky and earth in the final days of summer with the last songs of the cicadas. The deliberately irregular surfaces and the black marks interrupt the geometric order, giving movement and character to the composition. A luminous and energetic piece, suspended between balance and instinct.

PAOLO CONTIN has been developing a personal and constantly evolving artistic path for over twenty-five years. Trained in design and active in the fashion world since 1980, he brings to painting a particular sensitivity to color, form, and compositional balance.

Since 1999 he has been exhibiting his works, and in 2002 he held his first solo show in Padua. This was followed by numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad, with presence in Copenhagen, Munich, Paris, Brussels, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, and Sydney.

Paolo Contin’s artistic path is also documented by the inclusion in the Mondadori Art Catalog with related quotations. Over the years his works have also been published in Arte Mondadori magazine and in numerous catalogs and volumes produced for solo shows and major art fairs, some of which were published with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute.

He was also among the founding members of Tostart, an artistic association born from the meeting of ten Venetian artists and active until the pandemic period.

Eclectic and independent, Contin has built over the years a recognizable language, distant from belonging to a single school or trend. His research traverses geometric abstraction, material and gestural painting, alternating rigor and expressive freedom. Lines, blocks, geometric shapes, and intense chromatic relationships become elements of a vocabulary through which he explores balance, movement, and emotion.

The experimentation extends also to sculpture and wood, with works built through the layering of geometric elements, confirming a search that goes beyond the boundaries of painting alone.
His work continues to evolve today without predefined formulas: every work arises from the desire to preserve freedom, identity, and expressive authenticity.