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Et quid amabo nisi quod ænigma est?, 1969-70

GPC-0172

Collage on paper

35 x 35 cm

Signed and dated on the verso, centre: “Giulio Paolini / 1969-70”

Collection of the artist

Quotation from Giorgio de Chirico, Portrait de l’artiste par lui-même, 1910-11, oil on canvas, 72.5 x 55 cm, Private collection.

1999 Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen-Bachem, Giulio Paolini, 8 March - 30 April, repr. on the invitation.
2016-17 New York, Center for Italian Modern Art, Giorgio de Chirico – Giulio Paolini / Giulio Paolini – Giorgio de Chirico, 14 October 2016 - 24 June 2017, col. repr. on back cover.
2018-19 Milan, Fondazione Carriero, Giulio Paolini. Del Bello ideale, 26 October 2018 - 10 February 2019, col. repr. vol. 1, pp. 122-123, 124-125 (exhibition views), 164.
2019 Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Giorgio de Chirico. Ritorno al futuro, 19 April - 25 August, col. repr. p. 163.
Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1980, repr. p. 23.
Giulio Paolini. “Tutto qui”, exhibition catalogue, Ravenna, Pinacoteca Comunale, Loggetta Lombardesca (Ravenna: Agenzia Editoriale Essegi, 1985), repr. on cover (cropped on the left and right sides).
L. Busine, Les Doublures de Giulio Paolini (Brussels: Édition Lebeer-Hossmann, 1986), repr. p. 67 (rotated by 90 degrees anticlockwise).
M. Scholz-Hänsel, Das imaginäre Museum Giulio Paolinis, in Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1986, vol. 2, p. 14, repr. p. 8.
M. Bouisset, Arte Povera (Paris: Éditions du Regard, 1994), repr. p. 53.
L. Busine, Giulio Paolini, in Digraphe 67 (Paris), February, 1994, repr. p. 112 (cropped on all four sides and incompletely dated "1969").
Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Graz, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998), repr. p. 230.
N. Bätzner, “Giulio Paolini”, in Id., Arte Povera. Zwischen Erinnerung und Ereignis: Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis (Nuremberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2000), p. 75, repr. p. 74 (erroneously dated “1969-85”).
La Biennale di Venezia: 54. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte. L’arte non è Cosa Nostra, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Arsenale di Venezia, 2011, repr. p. 473 (erroneously titled “Biglietto da visita”, incompletely dated “1969”).
“Hypothesis for an Exhibition”, exhibition catalogue, New York, Dominique Lévy, 2014, repr. p. 26.
S. Menegoi, “Andata e/o ritorno”, in Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Galleria Christian Stein, 2017, p. 86, repr. p. 83.
I. Bernardi, Giulio Paolini. Opere su carta: un laboratorio gestuale per la percezione dell’immagine (Turin: Prinp Editore, 2017), p. 183, col. repr. p. 184.
A .Cortellessa, “Un appuntamento mancato”, in Giulio Paolini / Giorgio de Chirico, edited by Id. (Turin: Nino Aragno editore, 2019), p. 47, col. repr.
L. Canova, “Negli abissi del tempo. Giulio Paolini e Giorgio de Chirico”, in Metafisica. Quaderni della Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico 22-23 (Imola: Maretti Editore), 2023, pp. 113-114, col. repr. no. 3 p. 114.
S. Smets, “Looking at Latin 1911–1965–2019”, in Jolcel 8 (Ghent), biannual online journal, 2023, pp. 117-118, col. repr. p. 117.
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 27/02/2025