Flashback Painting

Sociologist and self-taught painter, Paolo Camporota was born in Catanzaro on 08/07/1972. A scholar of human behavior and social phenomena, his passion for social research and socio-anthropology transmits it through the language of painting, on a journey to the boundaries between reality and deep states of the human soul. Paolo Camporota produces very few “unique” works, to which he is emotionally linked, all of a strong immediate impact, but also requires a careful and reflective eye to investigate their depths. His paintings offer a psychoanalytic slant that lets the observer imagine a story, as if the subjects required the viewer to project a story inspired by the expressive power of the work. A psycho-dream dimension in which a still image is not limited only to the symbolic dimension, but almost wants to probe the relationship between human passions and the inevitable sociality in which they are experienced. After an initial expressionist figurative period, it subsequently evolves to abstraction with a new type of interpretation of the figurative image, between surrealism and abstract expressionism, inducing the viewer to determine the subject among the infinite visions and emotions created by abstract shapes and vibrant colors. Precisely this aesthetic and expressive power, proposed in various national and international exhibitions, has been the subject of numerous and interesting critical feedback, as well as important awards. Many articles have been written on his particular art and his profile has been included in various catalogs and trade magazines. Here are some group exhibitions, solo exhibitions and art competitions in Italy and abroad in which the artist Paolo Camporota participated: