Studio per “Hortus clausus”, 1981
GPC-0585
Study for “Hortus clausus”
Pencil, red pencil and collage on paper
Eleven parts 70 x 100 cm each
Private collection
On the occasion of the presentation of the eleven studies in the solo exhibition at SteinGladstone, New York, in 1991, the artist integrated the installation with projections on the walls of the images of the same works, in a sequence from the first to the last (one projection taking up the entire wall, and the others, of the same size as the framed elements, in between the sequence of the latter). To date it has not been possible to verify whether the artist had suggested this same way of installing the work in 1981 in Lucerne.
Figure from Pierre Descargues, Traités de perspective (Paris: Editions du Chêne, 1976), p. 102 (Abraham Bosse, “Les perspecteurs”).
| 1981 | Lucerne, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Giulio Paolini. Hortus clausus, 29 March - 3 May, repr. n. pag., referred to in the text by M. Kunz n. pag. |
| 1990 | New York, SteinGladstone Gallery, Giulio Paolini. Hortus clausus. A Work from 1981, from 13 January. |
| • | L. Ballerini, M. Pesaresi, “Exercise Before Death”, in Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves. Explorations in Italian Art, exhibition catalogue, Sydney, Power Gallery, University of Sydney (Milan: Electa, 1982), repr. p. 16 (seventh element only). |
| • | F. Poli, in Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Studio Marconi, 1984, n. pag., not repr. (republished as “L'io dell'artista, l'io della pittura” in Id., Giulio Paolini [Turin: Lindau, 1990], p. 17). |
| • | H. Friedel, “Giulio Paolini. Der doppelte Blick”, in Der Traum des Orpheus. Mythologie in der italienischen Gegenwartskunst 1967 bis 1984, exhibition catalogue, Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 1984, p. 73, not repr. |
| • | I. Panicelli, A. Mammì, “Giulio Paolini. Bibliografia”, in Giulio Paolini. La Casa di Lucrezio, exhibition catalogue, Spoleto, Palazzo Rosari Spada (Casalecchio di Reno: Grafis Edizioni, 1984), pp. 22, 26, not repr. (republished in Markus Lüpertz, Giulio Paolini: figure, colonne, finestre, exhibition catalogue, Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli, 1986, p. 81). |
| • | M. Disch, “Giulio Paolini. Hors-d’œuvre”, in Giulio Paolini. La voce del pittore - Scritti e interviste 1965-1995, edited by Id. (Lugano: ADV Publishing House, 1995), p. 110 (erroneously referred to the work Hortus clausus instead of the Studi), not repr. |
