Senza titolo, 1983
GPC-0641
Untitled
Pencil and collage on paper
Two parts 52 x 84 cm each, overall dimensions 52 x 170 cm
Signed and dated on the verso of the second element, centre: “Giulio Paolini / 1983”
Private collection
The two elements must be placed at a short interval from each other so that the drawing of the sight lines from the eyes of the upside-down figure (in the second element) continually develop from right to left.
• First element, image of the face in the negative print on the left: Head of Sappho, unknown source.
• First element, sculpture, top: Sleeping Hermaphroditus, 2nd century AD Roman copy of a 2nd century BC original, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris; reproduction from Francis Haskell, Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1982), p. 234, fig. 120 (“Hermaphrodite”).
• Second element, sculpture on the left: Antinous (Belvedere Hermes), engraving after Giovanni Pietro Bellori, in Vita di Nicolas Poussin, 1672; Antinous (Belvedere Hermes), Roman copy from the Age of Hadrian of a Greek original, marble, h 195 cm, Museo Pio-Clementino, Rome; reproduction from Francis Haskell, Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), fig. 73.
• Second element, image of the antique face from Opere di G. G. Winckelmann, prima edizione italiana completa 13 (Prato: Fratelli Giachetti, 1830-34), plate XXV, no. 62 (“Fronte di un Ercole”).
• Second element, image of the hand with a feather from Denis Diderot, Jean Baptiste Le Rond d’Alembert, Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Recueil de planches sur les sciences, les arts libéraux et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication. Seconde livraison, en deux parties. Première partie (Paris: 1763), p. 126, plate III (“L’Art d’écrire”).
• Second element, upside down figure from Pierre Descargues, Traités de perspective (Paris: Editions du Chêne, 1976), p. 102 (Abraham Bosse, “Les perspecteurs”).
| 2014 | Milan, ArteValori, Giulio Paolini. Raccolta di opere, 5 June - 18 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 42, col. repr. pp. 14-15; incorrect juxtaposition of the two framed parts. |
| 2016 | Turin, Mazzoleni Arte, Mazzoleni 1986-2016: 30 anni d’arte. 30 artisti italiani, Mazzoleni Arte, 28 October 2016 - 21 January 2017, touring to: Mazzoleni, London, 27 February - 5 May 2017, col. repr. pp. 168-169 (rotated by 180 degrees). |
| • | G. Celant, “Giulio Paolini et la cité de l’art”, in Art press 76 (Paris), December, 1983, repr. pp. 30-31 (titled “L’exil du cygne: neuf détails en deux temps”). |
| • | Il Giardino d’Europa. Pratolino come modello nella cultura europea, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Palazzo Medici Riccardi and Pratolino, Villa Demidoff (Milan: Mazzotta Editore, 1986), repr. p. 178 (rotated by 180 degrees). |
| • | Mazzoleni 1986-2016: 30 anni d’arte 30 artisti italiani / 30 Years of Art 30 Italian Artists, edited by G.L. Marcone (Turin-London-Poggibonsi: Mazzoleni and Carlo Cambi Editore, 2016), col. repr. pp. 168-169 (rotated by 180 degrees). |
