painting:D09

HN01 | oil on canvas 100x75cm | 2025

painting:HN09

HN09 | oil on board 29x50cm | 2025

painting:HN02

HN02 | oil on board 70x100cm | 2025

painting:HN03

HN03 | oil on canvas 70x50cm | 2025

painting:HN10

HN10 | oil on canvas 60x65cm | 2025

painting:HN04

HN04 | oil on canvas 60x65cm | 2025

painting:HN06

HN06 | oil on board 44x58cm | 2025

painting:HN08

HN08 | oil on board 43x37cm | 2025

painting:BAS2323

BAS2323 | oil on board 126x93cm | 2025

painting:HN07

HN07 | oil on board 49x35cm | 2025

painting:BAS2325

BAS2325 | oil on board 220x170cm | 2025

painting:HN05

HN05 | oil on board 49x35cm | 2025

painting:J01

J01 | oil on board 40x38cm | 2024

painting:array337

array337 | oil on board 50x40cm | 2016

 

yon-H01 | oil on cylindrical board 50x40x13cm + steel pipe | 2017

painting:array425

array425 | oil on board 50x40cm | 2017

painting:BAS1131

BAS1131 | oil on board 125x90cm | 2018

painting:array395

array395 | oil on board 50x40cm | 2016

painting:BAS1121

BAS1121 | oil on board 125x90cm | 2018

painting:BAS2713

BAS2713 | oil on board 160x125cm | 2018

painting:array413

array413 | oil on board 50x40cm | 2016

painting:array073

array073 | oil on board 50x40cm | 2014

statement

My practice is rooted in the conviction that painting can think in ways that precede language. Rather than illustrating concepts, I use the act of painting to construct situations in which tensions, contradictions, and unconscious structures remain active instead of being resolved into fixed meanings.

Over the past decades I have developed this research independently, moving across media and contexts while maintaining a continuous focus on the material and cognitive possibilities of the image. My works emerge through prolonged engagement with process, where intuition and reflection are not opposed but operate as different expressions of the same activity.

Projects such as “Paradise Without Outside” extend this investigation beyond the individual object into spatial constellations that invite the viewer to inhabit ambiguity rather than decode a predetermined message. Meaning is generated through encounter: between image and observer, presence and absence, order and disruption.

I do not approach painting as representation but as a site of transformation. The work seeks to create conditions in which inherited patterns—perceptual, emotional, or conceptual—can be suspended and reorganized, allowing new relations to emerge.

My independent trajectory has enabled a long-term commitment to this line of inquiry, resulting in a coherent body of work that prioritizes internal necessity over stylistic consistency or external validation.

 

about

 

antonio pauciulo was born in italy.
currently, he is based in leipzig, germany.

 

CV

 

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essays

• 2018 presence through absence (pdf 298kb) | mario bertin

• 2018 la presenza attraverso l'assenza (pdf 229kb) | mario bertin

• 2009 the springing force of antonio pauciulo’s compositions (pdf 311kb) | maurizio calvesi | silvana editoriale

interviews

• 2019 oil paint is cold to the touch (pdf 175kb)

• 2019 ACS magazine | interview (pdf 278kb)

• 2017 creative city berlin

• 2015 europa art magazine