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 * Origin:
 * Born 5th of November 1940 in Genoa, Italy


 * Schooling
 * He attended Giambattista Bodoni State Industrial Technical School of Graphics and Photography, graduating in the Graphics department


 * Family
 * Elder Brother who works in architecture
 * Art
 * He did his first work in 1960, Disegno geometrico (Geometrical Drawing), which consists of the squaring in ink of a canvas painted with white tempera. This preliminary gesture of any representation whatever would remain the point of "eternal recurrence" in the universe of Paolini's thought: topical moment and original instant that revealed the artist to himself, representing the conceptual foundation of all his future work.
 * This work and it's conceptual foundation is refereed to often when observing his later works, it provides a theoretical framework with to view his artwork from and allows for further investigation into his growth and development as an artist when considering the ideals he presents in referents of replication and authenticity and visibility.
 * Some of Paolini’s works were a reflection on his painting Disegno Geometrico, that art work in the 1960’s was the model for the art that he showcased in the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
 * Paolini developed his research by focusing on the very components of the picture: on the painter's tools and on the space of representation
 * Artistic Direction and Palette
 * He is particularly concerned with creating art that is at it's core Italian, showcasing a lot of pride and attachment to Italian philosophy, ideas and movements.
 * His creative ideals are associated with the following:
 * He mentions the cultural and geographical specificity of his art and when prompted continues to recognize his work’s positionality in the grand conversation of Renaissance, Mannerist, theory of perspective and theory of Lomazzo ideas
 * He would deny the notion of his works as communicative and any direct tie to Anglo-Saxon perspectives of art further enforcing the location of his works as part of a continuous italian art history narrative
 * He repeatedly declared an intimate belonging to the history of art, identifying programmatically with the lineage of all the artists who had preceded him. Some of his best known works can be traced back to this purpose, extraneous to the militant scene of the late 1960s
 * Among Paolini's main references in those years were Jorge Luis Borges, to whom he paid homage on several occasions, and Giorgio de Chirico from whom he borrowed the constituent phrase of the work Et.quid.amabo.nisi.quod.ænigma est (1969).
 * The period most dense in exhibitions and retrospectives, with the publication of important monographs, was the 1980s
 * Showcases and exhibitions
 * For his first solo show – in 1964 at Gian Tommaso Liverani's La Salita gallery in Rome – he presented some rough wooden panels leant against or hanging on the wall, suggesting an exhibition in the process of being set up. The show was seen by Carla Lonzi and Marisa Volpi who would shortly afterwards write the first critical texts on the young artist
 * Group exhibitions, innumerable since his participation in the 1961 Premio Lissone, include the shows connected with Arte Povera (1967–1971, 1984–85, 1997, 2001–02), the main international exhibitions of Italian art and many of the most significant shows dedicated to artistic development in the second half of the 20th century (for example: Vitalità del negativo, Rome 1970; Contemporanea, Rome 1973; Projekt '74, Cologne 1974; Europe in the Seventies, Chicago and touring through the United States 1977–78; Westkunst, Cologne 1981; '60–'80': Attitudes/concepts/images, Amsterdam 1982;
 * Association
 * Between 1967 and 1972, the critic Germano Celant invited him to take part in Arte Povera exhibitions which resulted in his name being associated with that movement
 * His association with Arte Povera contributed to the vastness of his exhibition work, He was first showcased in an exhibition in Rome in 1964 and from there went on to have his work showcased in exhibitions all throughout Europe, many of which took place in Turin, and further than that he went on to have his work showcased in the Sonnabed exhibition in New York City in 1972.