Paolo Semenzato

Venetian and self-taught, Paolo Semenzato began to paint as a boy by winning numerous awards, but became a professionist painter only in maturity age. He paints not with the brushes but with the spatula, not on the stand but on the floor; to achieve a painting sometimes takes weeks. Scrupulous, precise, almost maniacal, he puts himself in the service of that stylistic figure which is now all his own, and that it recognizes his paintings.
Before the painting of Paolo Semenzato, the first thing that comes to mind is not to look for school and style upheaval, but to lose yourself in the happy enchantment that he can stir up. Sunny and arabescata, ironic but without dramas, grimly elegant and decorative, it evokes a humble happiness of life, a non-intellectualizing image of the world.