Legno

Wood is Paul's most recurring material — the substance he returns to when he wants to think with his hands. Across the 2000s and 2010s he produces dozens of works in chestnut, pine, plywood, sometimes coated in red or black acrylic, sometimes left raw with the saw marks visible.

The wooden totems are perhaps his most architectural impulse: vertical assemblies of stacked elements that read like buildings reduced to a sketch. Some reach toward the ceiling; others remain small and dense, fitting in the palm of a hand.

Among the wood works there are pieces of polychrome assembly — wood combined with papier-mâché and saturated colour — which mark the bridge between the dry, structural totems and the painterly wall reliefs of the 2010s.