Paolo Contin - Confini di Luce

Paolo Contin
Borders of Light
Acrylic on canvas - 100 x 150 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.
Spedizioni toward countries outside the European Community are not accepted due to excessively high costs.

" Borders of Light ": A contemporary large-format abstract work characterized by the meeting of warm tones of yellow, ochre and orange and intense areas of blue and turquoise. Overlapping color, material traces and subtle dark marks create depth and movement, keeping the composition balanced and luminous. A work with a strong visual presence, suitable for any setting.

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

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

Paolo Contin’s artistic journey is also documented by inclusion in the Arte Mondadori Catalogue with related quotations. Over the years his works have also appeared in Arte Mondadori magazine and in numerous catalogues and books produced for solo shows and major art fairs, some 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 Veneto artists and active until the pandemic period.

An eclectic and independent artist, Contin has built over the years a recognizable language, distant from belonging to a single school or trend. His research traverses geometric abstraction, matter-based 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.

Experimentation extends to sculpture and wood as well, with works built through the layering of geometric elements, confirming a search that exceeds the confines of painting alone.
His work continues to evolve today without preset formulas: every piece arises from the desire to preserve freedom, identity and expressive authenticity.