about the artist

Paul el Pulpo (Paolo Agostini) is an Italian self-taught abstract artist who moves between Barcelona, Cape Town and Bali — three places that shape his rhythm like shifting currents of the same ocean.
He paints in motion, carried by instinct and silence, like an octopus gliding through different waters.

His work blends intuition, movement and introspection, guided by the natural world: the textures of rocks and waves, the pulse of wind, the murmurs of the forest, the quiet harmony of untouched landscapes.
He likes to paint actively and in multiple directions, working with mixed media on horizontal canvases, moving around them — not painting on the surface, but painting within it, as if entering the canvas and becoming part of its flow.
Nature is not just his inspiration — it is his language.

The octopus, his symbolic alter ego, represents curiosity, sensitivity and radical adaptability: three hearts, eight ways of sensing, one desire to explore.
From this creature of fluid intelligence comes his artistic identity: Paul el Pulpo.

His paintings are inner maps — traces of emotion, fragments of freedom, moments suspended between chaos and clarity.
For him, art is not an object, but a state of consciousness: a deep dive into stillness, where the mind softens and the soul finds space to breathe.