Paolo Contin - Riflessi di un mondo incantato

Paolo Contin
Riflessi di un mondo incantato
"An abstract landscape where light and color meet in a suggestive balance.
The tones of yellow and blue create a luminous and deep atmosphere, while the reflections on the surface seem to open the gaze toward an imaginary horizon. A modern and intense work that conveys energy, harmony, and a sense of wonder."

Acrylic on canvas - cm 100 x 150 x 0.1
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.
Sp shipments to countries outside the European Community are not accepted due to excessive costs.

PAOLO CONTIN develops a personal artistic path that has been continually evolving for over twenty-five years. Trained in design and active since 1980 in the fashion world, he transfers 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. Followed by numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad, with appearances in Copenhagen, Munich, Paris, Brussels, Istanbul, Buenos Aires and Sydney.

Paolo Contin’s artistic path is also documented by his presence in the Arte Mondadori 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 exhibitions and major art fairs, some of which were published with the support of the Italian Institute of Culture.

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

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

Experimentation extends also to sculpture and wood, with works built through the overlay of geometric elements, confirming a search that goes beyond the boundaries of painting alone.

His work continues to evolve today without preset formulas: every work arises from the desire to preserve freedom, identity and expressive authenticity.