Ennesima (appunti per la descrizione di sette disegni datati 1973), 1973

Archive number

GPC-0232

English title

Umpteenth (Notes for the Description of Seven Drawings Dated 1973)

Technique

Pencil on graph paper

Dimensions

Seven parts 45.5 x 30.5 cm each, overall dimensions 45.5 x 222.5 cm

Inscriptions by the artist

Signed and titled on the verso of the seventh element, centre: “Giulio Paolini / Ennesima / (appunti per la descrizione / di sette disegni datati 1973)”

Collection

Goetz Collection, Munich

Acquisitions and loans

Acquired in 1974

Exhibitions

1973	Milan, Studio Marconi, Paolini: opere 1961/73, from 15 November, not repr.
1973-74	Rome, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Contemporanea, 30 November 1973 - 28 February 1974, not repr.
1975	Munich, Galerie Art in Progress, Giulio Paolini, 18 April - 21 May.
1979	Munich, Galerie Art in Progress, Beschreibung – Notation – Struktur, 1-31 March.
1993	Munich, Sammlung Goetz, Sammlung Goetz, from 6 March, no catalogue.
1997-00	Bremen, Neues Museum Weserburg, Arte Povera. Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz 1958 bis heute, 22 June - 7 September 1997, touring to: Nuremberg, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, 2 October - 7 December 1997; Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 14 February - 26 April 1998; Vienna; Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, 19 June - 30 August 1998; Göteborg (Sweden), Konsthallen, 19 September - 22 November 1998; Munich, Sammlung Goetz, [part 2], 24 January - 20 May 2000, col. repr. pp. 138-139, catalogue entry p. 233 (with mistakes).
2012-13	Basilea, Kunstmuseum Basel, Arte Povera. Der grosse Aufbruch, 9 September 2012 - 3 february 2013, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 70 p. 132, col. repr. of the first element.
2017	New York, Hauser & Wirth, Arte Povera. Curated by Ingvild Goetz, 12 September - 28 October, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 261, col. repr. pp. 112-113, 118-119 (exhibition views), 116, 117 (detail), 245 (exhibition view Munich 1993), referred to in the collection chronology p. 231.

Bibliography

•	G. Paolini, Idem (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1975), repr. pp. 66-67 (erroneously titled “Ennesima: appunti per la descrizione di sette disegni datati 1972“), new edition (Milan: Electa, 2023), repr. pp. 92-93 (erroneously titled “Ennesima: appunti per la descrizione di sette disegni datati 1972”).
•	Giulio Paolini (Parma: Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976), repr. nos. 155-161 (with incorrect title “Ennesima: appunti per la descrizione di sette disegni datati 1972“ and dimensions “36 x 28 cm”).
•	Giulio Paolini. Atto unico in tre quadri, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Studio Marconi (Milan: Gabriele Mazzotta editore, 1979), repr. p. 106 (erroneously titled “Ennesima: appunti per la descrizione di sette disegni datati 1972“).
•	Arte Povera. Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz 1958 bis heute (Munich: Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz, 1997), col. repr. pp. 138-139, entry p. 233 (with incorrect list of exhibitions and bibliographical references); English edition Arte Povera from the Goetz Collection (Munich: Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz, 2001), col. repr. pp. 140-141, entry p. 248 (with incorrect bibliographical references).
•	Arte Povera Seen by Ingvild Goetz (New York: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2017), col. repr. pp. 112-113, 118-119 (exhibition views New York 2017), 116, 117 (detail), 245 (exhibition view Munich 1993), cited in the chronology of the exhibitions p. 231, caption p. 261.

Entry by Maddalena Disch, 27/02/2025