Giulio Paolini (born 5 November 1940 in Genoa) is an Italian artist. Often linked to the Arte Povera* movement, he is best known for an artistic practice that is inscribed in a more strictly conceptual* sphere.

After a childhood spent in Bergamo, he moved with his family to Turin where he still lives today. He attended the Giambattista Bodoni State Industrial Technical School of Graphics and Photography, graduating in the Graphics department in 1959. He had been interested in art from an early age, visiting museums and galleries and reading art periodicals. Towards the end of the 1950s he approached painting, trying some pictures of an abstract nature, close to monochrome*. The discovery of modern graphi...