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Paolo Colombo
29 September - 3 November 2018

Paolo Colombo

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Paolo Colombo

Paolo Colombo is an artist living in Athens, working exclusively with watercolors and pencil drawings. This exhibition presents a body of his recent and new work, including word-based and image-focused works. Each is a tracing of an interior space, an experienced event or sensation, illuminated through fundamental forms such as the dot, the line, and the square. 

Two early works from the 1970s depict Colombo’s poetry from that time, in which each letter is comprised of thousands of dots, as if gathered from sand or fog. The poetic images, concentrated and lyrical, are at once poignant and without fixed meaning. Colombo balances his simple language with a highly technical visual method, making this leap to the visual at a time when mainstream art made little room for lyric expression. In his later watercolors, often comprised of two or more sheets butting against each other, the lettering and the painted stars and diamonds appear as embroidery, and in consistency with this, the texture of the paper resembles that of cloth. 

Paolo Colombo’s passion for texture together with an appreciation for Byzantine and folk arts is also alive in the works that are not based on text. These depict simple images that evoke nuanced associations and feelings: stars, an eye, a pair of arms crossing. Colombo offers us a visual poetics that is particular while allowing for the experiences of others, opening spaciously into emotions and states of being.

Andrea Applebee, Athens, Greece.

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Born 1949 in Torino, Italy, Paolo Colombo lives and works in Athens, Greece, and is the Art Advisor for the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art (2008 to present). Between 2001 – 2007, Colombo was the curator of the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo in Rome, and the director of the Centre d’art Contemporain in Geneva between 1989 –2000. Colombo studied at the University of Rome between 1967 – 1975, at Yale University between 1975 – 1976, and at Columbia University between 1976 – 1977

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Installation Views
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Works
  • Paolo Colombo Bisogna Scrivere, 1978 Pencil on paper Framed: 44 7/8 x 60 5/8 in 114 x 154 cm Paper: 39 3/8 x 55 7/8 in 100 x 142 cm
    Paolo Colombo
    Bisogna Scrivere, 1978
    Pencil on paper
    Framed: 44 7/8 x 60 5/8 in
    114 x 154 cm
    Paper: 39 3/8 x 55 7/8 in
    100 x 142 cm
  • Paolo Colombo Piccole Mitologie, 1979 Pencil on paper Paper: 39 3/8 x 55 7/8 in (100 x 142 cm) Framed: 44 7/8 x 60 5/8 in (114 x 154 cm)
    Paolo Colombo
    Piccole Mitologie, 1979
    Pencil on paper
    Paper: 39 3/8 x 55 7/8 in (100 x 142 cm)
    Framed: 44 7/8 x 60 5/8 in (114 x 154 cm)
  • Paolo Colombo Untitled, 2018 Watercolor on paper Paper: 45 1/4 x 59 1/8 in (115 x 150 cm) Framed: 51 1/8 x 66 1/8 in (130 x 168 cm)
    Paolo Colombo
    Untitled, 2018
    Watercolor on paper
    Paper: 45 1/4 x 59 1/8 in (115 x 150 cm)
    Framed: 51 1/8 x 66 1/8 in (130 x 168 cm)
  • Paolo Colombo Untitled, 2018 Watercolor on paper Paper: 45 1/4 x 59 1/8 in (115 x 150 cm) Framed: 51 1/8 x 66 1/8 in (130 x 168 cm)
    Paolo Colombo
    Untitled, 2018
    Watercolor on paper
    Paper: 45 1/4 x 59 1/8 in (115 x 150 cm)
    Framed: 51 1/8 x 66 1/8 in (130 x 168 cm)
  • Paolo Colombo Arms, 2018 Watercolor on paper Framed: 28 3/8 x 66 1/8 in 72 x 168 cm Paper: 22 1/2 x 59 1/8 in 57 x 150 cm
    Paolo Colombo
    Arms, 2018
    Watercolor on paper
    Framed: 28 3/8 x 66 1/8 in
    72 x 168 cm
    Paper: 22 1/2 x 59 1/8 in
    57 x 150 cm
  • Paolo Colombo The Eye, 2018 Watercolor on paper Paper 22 1/2 x 59 1/8 in (57 x 150 cm) Framed: 28 3/8 x 66 1/8 in (72 x 168 cm)
    Paolo Colombo
    The Eye, 2018
    Watercolor on paper
    Paper 22 1/2 x 59 1/8 in (57 x 150 cm)
    Framed: 28 3/8 x 66 1/8 in (72 x 168 cm)
  • Paolo Colombo Fog, 2018 Watercolor on paper Left paper: 22 1/2 x 29 1/2 in (57 x 75 cm) Right paper: 12 1/4 x 9 1/8 in (31 x 23 cm) Left framed: 28 x 35 3/8 in (71 x 90 cm) Right framed: 14 3/4 x 11 5/8 in (37.6 x 29.5 cm)
    Paolo Colombo
    Fog, 2018
    Watercolor on paper
    Left paper: 22 1/2 x 29 1/2 in (57 x 75 cm)
    Right paper: 12 1/4 x 9 1/8 in (31 x 23 cm)
    Left framed: 28 x 35 3/8 in (71 x 90 cm)
    Right framed: 14 3/4 x 11 5/8 in (37.6 x 29.5 cm)
  • Paolo Colombo Untitled, 2018 Watercolor on paper Left aper: 29 x 36 3/8 in (73.5 x 92.5 cm) Right paper: 12 1/4 x 9 1/8 in (31 x 23 cm) Left framed: 30 1/8 x 37 5/8 in (76.5 x 95.5 cm) Right framed: 14 5/8 x 11 5/8 in (37 x 29.5 cm)
    Paolo Colombo
    Untitled, 2018
    Watercolor on paper
    Left aper: 29 x 36 3/8 in (73.5 x 92.5 cm)
    Right paper: 12 1/4 x 9 1/8 in (31 x 23 cm)
    Left framed: 30 1/8 x 37 5/8 in (76.5 x 95.5 cm)
    Right framed: 14 5/8 x 11 5/8 in (37 x 29.5 cm)
  • Paolo Colombo Window, 2018 Watercolor on paper Left paper: 12 1/4 x 9 1/8 in (31 x 23 cm) Right paper: 22 1/2 x 29 1/2 in (57 x 75 cm) Left framed: 14 5/8 x 11 3/8 in (37 x 29 cm) Right framed: 27 3/4 x 35 1/4 in (70.5 x 89.5 cm)
    Paolo Colombo
    Window, 2018
    Watercolor on paper
    Left paper: 12 1/4 x 9 1/8 in (31 x 23 cm)
    Right paper: 22 1/2 x 29 1/2 in (57 x 75 cm)
    Left framed: 14 5/8 x 11 3/8 in (37 x 29 cm)
    Right framed: 27 3/4 x 35 1/4 in (70.5 x 89.5 cm)
  • Paolo Colombo Untitled, 2018 Watercolor on paper Paper: 29 x 36 3/8 in (73.5 x 92.5 cm) Framed: 30 1/8 x 37 5/8 in (76.5 x 95.5 cm)
    Paolo Colombo
    Untitled, 2018
    Watercolor on paper
    Paper: 29 x 36 3/8 in (73.5 x 92.5 cm)
    Framed: 30 1/8 x 37 5/8 in (76.5 x 95.5 cm)
  • Paolo Colombo Untitled, 2018 Watercolor on paper Paper: 29 x 36 3/8 in (73.5 x 92.5 cm) Framed: 30 1/8 x 37 5/8 in (76.5 x 95.5 cm)
    Paolo Colombo
    Untitled, 2018
    Watercolor on paper
    Paper: 29 x 36 3/8 in (73.5 x 92.5 cm)
    Framed: 30 1/8 x 37 5/8 in (76.5 x 95.5 cm)
  • Paolo Colombo Untitled, 2018 Watercolor on paper Paper: 29 x 36 3/8 in (73.5 x 92.5 cm) Framed: 30 1/8 x 37 5/8 in (76.5 x 95.5 cm)
    Paolo Colombo
    Untitled, 2018
    Watercolor on paper
    Paper: 29 x 36 3/8 in (73.5 x 92.5 cm)
    Framed: 30 1/8 x 37 5/8 in (76.5 x 95.5 cm)
  • Paolo Colombo Untitled, 2018 Watercolor on paper Paper: 29 x 36 3/8 in (73.5 x 92.5 cm) Framed: 30 1/8 x 37 5/8 in (76.5 x 95.5 cm)
    Paolo Colombo
    Untitled, 2018
    Watercolor on paper
    Paper: 29 x 36 3/8 in (73.5 x 92.5 cm)
    Framed: 30 1/8 x 37 5/8 in (76.5 x 95.5 cm)
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Press
  • Installation view of the exhibition "Paolo Colombo", Baert Gallery, Los Angeles

    Paolo Colombo’s Visual Poetry

    Avery Wheless, Artillery Magazine, October 4, 2018

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