The volume Paolo Conte. Original is an unpublished and affectionate portrait of the artist from Asti, an icon of Italian singer-songwriter music, who for years cultivated an intimate and reserved passion for visual art. He trained as a painter and draftsman, maintaining a deep and continuous relationship with images. His world takes shape through colors, lines, abstractions, and figurative suggestions that lead the viewer into the very heart of the poetic universe of his songs: melancholic, jazz-inflected, elegant, and surreal.The exhibition and the catalogue are not only a tribute to his multifaceted figure, but also a rare opportunity to discover the most visual and secret side of an immense artist.