The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève is presenting an exhibition in the Project Space by the painter Paolo Colombo, who was director of the institution from 1990 to 2001.
Paolo Colombo’s main medium is watercolour. In some of his watercolours The written word is present in some of his watercolors, and more specifically in the form poetry written by the artist. The writing wants to free itself from all forms of heaviness, both material and conceptual. Sign after sign, line after line, point after point, Colombo understands his artistic activity as a form of meditation on existence, on beauty, on the history of art.
Paolo Colombo (born 1949 in Turin, Italy) graduated in languages and literature from the University of Rome in 1975 and began painting and drawing as a self-taught artist from 1974 at the Mario Pozzoli gallery in Milan. In 1977, Colombo was the first European artist to exhibit at PS1 in New York. He interrupted his career in 1986 for 21 years. During this time, he worked as a curator in museums in the United States, Switzerland, Italy, Greece and Turkey. After this hiatus, Colombo resumed his artistic practice in 2007, coinciding with a move to Athens, Greece. Since then, his work was presented in London, Los Angeles, Geneva, Rossinière, and Athens. His works are part of the collections of MONA in Hobart (Tasmania), Istanbul Modern (Turkey), Bénaki Museum in Athens (Greece) and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (USA).
