Paolo Medici was born in Rome, Italy in 1955. He attended Corrado Cagli's studio as a student, perfecting his studies in painting from 1969 to 1976. In 1973, he attended the study of Giorgio De Chirico for a stage in painting. He chooses to focus his attention on the experimentation of frottage, a technique that one learns to use with extreme mastery and creativity, to the point of creating paintings whose visual effect manages to evoke the same intensity and clarity of a work created with oil brushes. Paolo Medici, for this technique, is considered one of the best contemporary artists. The technique that he favors is frottage, which exploits the rubbing of oil-waxed pastels on paper overlapping a texture, and the main theme of his works is "the ancient", sometimes the story, sometimes the myth, not felt as a nostalgic dream but as a certain determined presence. At an early age he began exhibiting activities and in 1975, just twenty years old, he made his first “solo exhibition” at the Galleria Boheme in Rome. At the beginning of 2000, the great artistic turning point, with a series of paintings entitled Acque, which projects the artist in the definitive choice of complete figuration. This was then followed by the respective collections of Femmes, The Stories of Leda, The Face Sign of the Soul, Mademoiselle, About Face, Western Veils and Synesthesia. He considers himself an emotional realist. Emotion is what he wants to represent; realism is his own way of making a painting. He takes inspiration from what he sees around him, but his personal thoughts are just the starting point and inspiration for research on man and his condition. To his credit many personal exhibitions in museums, public and private galleries. Since 1990 he has lived and worked in Bologna. Website: paolomedicipittore.comInstagram: @paolo_medici_1955