Il momento della verità, 2008
GPC-1100
The Moment of Truth
Lithographic print with central cut-out mounted between two plexiglas sheets, steel cables
61 x 49 cm
Signed on the recto, bottom right: “Giulio Paolini”, numbering, bottom left: “3/100”
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino
Gift of the artist, 2008
The work calls for an installation in the central part of the room (never close to a wall) so as to guarantee sufficient depth of field to the gaze that crosses it. The two plexiglas sheets must be suspended from the ceiling by steel cables.
The presence of one or more works in the same room is not binding; the work can direct the gaze onto a partial view of a room, or towards a landscape outside.
The metal brackets that in the first presentation in 2008 held the work on the ground as well are not preserved at Castello di Rivoli, but they are not binding in the installation. It is actually better not to use them.
Image at the centre from Conrad G. Mueller, Mae Rudolph et al., Luce e visione (Milan: Mondadori, 1968), p. 149.
| 2008-09 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Una stanza tutta per sé, 2 April 2008 - 18 January 2009, no catalogue. |
| 2010-11 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Tutto è connesso. Opere della collezione del Castello di Rivoli 1998-2009, 8 June 2010 - September 2011, no catalogue. |
| • | Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. La Residenza Sabauda – La Collezione (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), p. 414, col. repr. pp. 416-417 (exhibition view Rivoli 2008). |
| • | Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. La storia e le collezioni, edited by C. Christov-Bakargiev and M. Beccaria, Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 2023), vol. II, p. 821 (referred to in the text by M. Beccaria), col. repr. p. 829. |
| • | M. Beccaria, “Il modello in persona”, in Giulio Paolini. Et in Arcadia ego, exhibition catalogue, Verona, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Achille Forti (Imola: Manfredi Edizioni, 2024), p. 61, not repr. |
