Studio per “Trionfo della rappresentazione”, 1983
GPC-0650
Study for the “Trionfo della rappresentazione”
Collage on paper
50 x 70 cm
Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, centre: “Studio per il / Trionfo della rappresentazione / Giulio Paolini / 1983”
Collection of the artist
Details of images held by the valets, from left to right:
• manuscript of the poem by John Keats, Lamia, 1820, lines 185-190; reproduction from I poeti romantici e inglesi e l’Italia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Palazzo Braschi, 1980-81, p. 54.
• diagram of the formation of an image on the retina: Frans van Schooten, plate for Descartes’ treatise titled Dioptrique (Leiden: 1637); reproduction from Franco Rella, “Immagini e figure del pensiero”, in Rassegna 9 (Milan: Electa, 1982).
• alchemical vase (blue and yellow details): Sapientia veterum philosophorum sive doctrina eorundem de summa et universali medicina, 18th century, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, Paris, Ms. 974, fig. XXXVIII; reproduction from Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, Alchimie / Florilège de l’art secret (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1974), plate 50.
• George Brummel's scarf (fragments): Giorgio Agamben, Stanze (Turin: Einaudi, 1977), n. pag., fig. 10 (“Beau Brummell”).
• framed map: Egnazio Danti and Stefano Bonsignori, maps made for the Hall of maps, 1564-86, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence; reproduction from Il potere e lo spazio / La scena del principe, edited by M. Fattori and M. Bianchi (Florence: Edizioni Medicee, 1980).
• image of the flowers from Alexander Adrion, L’arte della magia (Milan: Mazzotta, 1979), pp. 72-73 (”Chevalier Nic (Niels Hansen)”).
| • | G. Paolini, “Trionfo della rappresentazione”, in Gran Bazaar 4 (Milan), April, 1983, pp. 88-91, col. repr. pp. 90-91 (with the reproduction of the original sources of the iconographic details). |
| • | Giulio Paolini, vol. Images/Index (Villeurbanne: Le Nouveau Musée, 1984), repr. pp. 148-149. |
| • | Il modo italiano, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, 1984, vol. 2, repr. p. 29. |
| • | Coerenza in coerenza. Dall’Arte Povera al 1984, exhibition catalogue, Turin, Mole Antonelliana (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1984), repr. no. 3 p. 87. |
| • | Nouvelle Biennale de Paris 1985, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grande Halle de la Villette (Milan-Paris: Electa France, 1985), repr. p. 181. |
| • | Paolini. Melanconia ermetica, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Galerie Maeght Lelong, 1985, repr. p. 16. |
| • | B. Paulino-Néto, “Giulio Paolini”, in Beaux-Arts Magazine 25 (Paris), June, 1985, col. repr. p. 38 (flipped horizontally). |
| • | G. Paolini, Voix off (Mâcon: Éditions W, 1986), repr. p. 102. |
| • | M. Newman, "Vision as Metaphor: Towards a Fragmentary History", in The mirror + the lamp, exhibition catalogue, Edinburgh, The Fruitmarket Gallery, 1986, p. 20, repr. |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1986, vol. 4, col. repr. p. 45. |
| • | H.C. Cousseau, L'exil du poète, in Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1987, repr. p. 62. |
| • | 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), pp. 94-96, repr. no. 20. |
| • | 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. 83, repr. p. 82. |
| • | G. Paolini, Per un verso o per l’altro. E altro ancora, vol. 2 (Brescia: Galleria Massimo Minini and Edizioni l’Obliquo, 2007), repr. no. 4 p. 12. |
| • | Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, exhibition catalogue, Lugano, Spazio -1, 2015, repr. p. 19. |
| • | F. Guzzetti, “Era finora: distanze e intersezioni”, in Giulio Paolini. Era finora (Milan: Edizioni Fondazione Luigi Rovati and Johan & Levi editore, 2022), p. 64, col. repr. p. 30. |
