Antonio Pauciulo is a visual artist whose primary language is painting, understood as a reality in itself—capable of generating, structuring, and sustaining space. Since 1975, a decisive starting point, his work has consistently engaged with the tension between instinctive material...
Read MoreAntonio Pauciulo is a visual artist whose primary language is painting, understood as a reality in itself—capable of generating, structuring, and sustaining space. Since 1975, a decisive starting point, his work has consistently engaged with the tension between instinctive material and the forms that contain and articulate it.
His practice is nourished by parallel investigations in music, psychoanalysis, and CAD-based drawing. These fields function not as external references but as operative frameworks that inform the internal logic of the work. Across painting, installation, and spatial compositions, Pauciulo examines how perception is organized and how form can hold complex, often unstable psychological content.
He studied psychology, philosophy, and fine arts in Rome, establishing an early cross-disciplinary approach shaped in part by psychoanalytic thought, including Heinz Kohut and Wilfred Bion. In 1994, he presented his first exhibition with the Roman artist group Grupposangiorgio, marking the beginning of a public trajectory.
In 2002, he moved to Berlin, where his work expanded into large-scale installations and spatial environments such as Nudo Interno, Mietshaus, and In the Open, each investigating the capacity of form to construct experiential space. Around 2010, he developed a “Grammar of Form,” integrating geometry and CAD processes into his practice, further extending his inquiry into structure and perception. Series such as array and yon continue this investigation, focusing on the human figure as both carrier and site of transformation.
Residencies and projects in Canada and China contributed to a broader contextual engagement, without displacing the centrality of painting as the core field of operation. Since 2025, Pauciulo is based at the Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei.
His work has been exhibited across Europe, North America, and Asia, and is held in public and private collections. Collaborations include institutions such as Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst and the PAN Museum Naples.
