Paolo Uttieri is a contemporary painter active since the 1970s. He began his career with Surrealism and combined painting with a solid theoretical background, which led him to publish essays on Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael in 1984. In 1988, he founded Nerismo, a pictorial movement in which black becomes a conceptual expression, generating broken lines, incomplete forms, and luminous voids. His technique, which includes oil on canvas, mixed media, and watercolor, moves from the essential figurative to the abstract and conceptual, inviting profound introspection and a confrontation with the invisible. He has held approximately 250 exhibitions in Italy and abroad and is featured in over 200 books, catalogs, encyclopedias, and important magazines. He has been praised by critics and scholars such as Vittorio Sgarbi, Paolo Levi, and Philippe Daverio. He exhibited at the Rome Triennale, as part of the 77th Venice Film Festival, and for synopses of his works at the Venice Biennale in 2022 and 2024.