Paolo Contin - Arrivederci Estate

Paolo Contin
ARRIVEDERCI ESTATE
"The last colors of summer blend into a bright horizon, where the day's warmth meets the first shadows of the new season. Signs, materials, and contrasts tell a moment suspended between what ends and what is about to begin, in a balance of energy and melancholy."

Acrylic on canvas - 50 x 50 x 4 cm
Certificate of authenticity with date and authentic signature on the back of the canvas.
The painting will be shipped packaged inside a firmly protected box with several packing materials.
Anyone purchasing this work will not have to incur further costs (neither for the frame nor for the border) because the painting is ready to hang on a wall as it has 4 cm sides, as is common for abstract paintings.
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Shipments to countries outside the European Union are not accepted due to excessive costs.

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

Since 1999 he has exhibited his works, and in 2002 he held his first solo exhibition in Padua. This has been 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 his presence in the Art Mondadori Catalog, with related valuations. 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.

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

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