Paolo Contin - Quello che resta delle parole

Paolo Contin

WORDS THAT REMAIN
Acrylic painting - Mixed media - Hand-signed - 2026
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.
Shipments to countries outside the European Community are not accepted due to high costs.

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

Since 1999 he has exhibited his works, and in 2002 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 journey is also documented by his presence in the Mondadori Art Catalog with corresponding price quotes. 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 Veneto artists and active until the Pandemic period.

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

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