One of his first significant works is Geometrical Drawing of 1960: a canvas on which he has completed only a preliminary procedure, that is the geometric quadrature, an anticipation of every possible representation. Paolini's works are always focused on specific themes of art and progressively inherent in increasingly vast areas that subtract the uniqueness of the work to give it the possibility of alluding to infinite possible existences. A sample of the tools and techniques of painting and drawing of the years 1960-64 appears in the paintings (cans of paint, brushes, frames, preparation of the canvas, grid). Often his works reproduce the image of themselves within the space that hosts them. The reflections on the concept of action are generally derived from textual grafts: works reproduced in photographs, paintings by other artists, plaster casts, ancient prints and literary passages. While in exhibition projects, the relationship between the works and the exhibition space or the behavior that the viewer assumes inside it is analyzed, as in the installation created specifically for the Madre.
