Lab Rome’22 edition
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Paolo Petrino Italy Painting

Artwork title : im 14

"Impressed by everything I experience, places, objects, people, stories."

Born in 1996, graduated at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in 2021 with Professor Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai.
 

During his university studies he cultivated his passion for art and painting, intensifying his artistic production after graduation.

In his works he conveys everything that strikes him, places, objects, people and sto- ries. In recent years he has traveled a lot, in a way he had never experienced befo- re, meeting people and cultures completely different from his own.

It is in these pilgrimages that a new conception of beauty arose in him, made up of simplicity and a deeper understanding of visual and spiritual language.
 

The stones he finds during his travels become mediums capable of expressing a beauty characterized by a return to practice, to know the earth as a raw material. Smashing and layering stones on a canvas Pol create a unique colour and an old materic texture capable of animating and making a work eternal.

 


 

Man

nature,

a sublime encounter.

 

He is curious, brave,

willing to measure his greatness.

She is majestic, insurmountable,

as beautiful as mysterious.

An intense relationship.

 

Apparently

she lets herself be tamed,

he is encouraged to continue.

Then an apparition.

 

He,

overwhelmed with emotions,

incredulous at what he felt.

She,

once again,

a beloved

and forever desired lover.