Paolo Paradiso
 Love the rain , 2017 olio su tela  cm 100x120)

Opening Thursday 11th May h 18.00
  

"I would like to thanks right away and not at the end because it all started from here.

The 50's were not long enough.

Thanks to the so-called Atomic Era. Worried for the planet's destiny, the Americans reacted with a healthy fatalism. The result conducted to a period of prosperity and serenity never seen before. As well as the growth of fallout shelters in the garden.

Thanks to Comedy movies and the actress symbol of those years: Doris Day, her 2 pieces suits and her pastel color coats.

Even though at that time my fiancé was Sandra Dee, who unfortunately I had to share with millions of other American teenagers.

Thanks to Rod Sterling who agitated my sleep with his "The Twilight Zone " Thanks to the earlier science fiction's pioneers and their Space Craft with visible thread.

Staying on the subject, thanks to the menace from other planets and those years obsession for the arrival of the "martians" Still waiting for…

Thanks to the cars as big as boats, at their curvy lines, and the feast of lights and chromes.

Thanks to the "forbidden books" of my youth, to Grace Metalious for her Peyton Place and to Sloan Wilson's A Summer Place where for my greatest joy, in the movie's version, Sandra Dee was actually the main actress.

Looking back at those summers, the music in the air, for me, was nothing else but A Summer Place, thanks Percy Faith.

Thanks to the America of Norman Rockwell, to the suburbs, because It's not only New York.

Thanks to black and white photography that made me discover the poetry of shadows.

To all the Impressionists from whom I learned to paint with light.

To the Belgian comics with Michel Vaillant's cars and Buck Danny's airplanes. And thanks to Gaston Lagaffe almost an Alter Ego.

Thanks to the Rat Pack. To Frank, Sammy and to Dean Martin's "style". They were having fun while working, like no others before.

And thanks to Edward Hopper who was able to make my dream comes true: paint America.

Finally, thanks to all the examples and the advices that fortunately, I had never followed."

                                                                 Paolo Paradiso

Paolo Paradiso is born in Milan. He studied graphic advertising but at the same time he dedicated himself to painting, which has always been his passion.
In 1978, he opened his own photography studio and collaborates with advertising company and fashion magazines.In 1983 he decided to move to Chicago. During that period painting became his main activity and in 2003 he presented all his work at the Michael H. Lord Gallery of Chicago.In 2004 back to Milan he won the first prize of the "Premio di Pittura Carlo Dalla Zorza" organized by Galleria Ponte Rosso, which represents him since then.
Over the last 10 years the interest in Paradiso’s exhibitions has been consistently growing.
He now lives between Milano, Paris and Barcelona.