Suite n. 3, 1976
GPE-0022
Suite No. 3
Photo prints applied to paper
Two sheets 35 x 50 cm each
Signed, titled and dated on the verso of the second sheet, centre: “Giulio Paolini / Suite n. 3 / 1976”
Autograph numbering on the verso of the second sheet, centre
9 in Arabic numerals from 1/9 to 9/9
Self-produced by the artist
The two plates, individually framed without a passepartout, must be arranged close together, at a distance equal to that between the two paintings reproduced in the plate to the right.
The first plate is a reproduction of a view of the room of the Pergamon Altar, at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, with several visitors. In the second plate, the same image is doubled and observed by other viewers inside another display space. From one plate to the next, the multiplication of the museum room in Berlin follows a gradual reduction in scale, as if to suggest a perspective of extension that is potentially oriented towards infinity.
The numbering in the title includes these two plates in a group of works – which began with Suite n. 1, 1974 (GPO-0277) and continued with the print edition Suite n. 2, 1975 (GPE-0018) – whose common denominator is duplication by means of a succession or suite of the same initial image. The iconographic subject of the print was also formulated in a version on canvas produced during the same year (GPO-0332) and in a version on paper (GPC-0444) which is distinguished by the application of the photographs on two slightly smaller sheets featuring holes along the outer vertical sides.
The theme of the viewer in the museum context, joined with the idea of multiplication, is reiterated in the work titled Eco, which was made during the same period (GPO-0339, GPO-0341).
| 1977 | Zurich, Galerie Annemarie Verna, Giulio Paolini, 20 January - 23 February. |
| 1977 | Mannheim, Mannheim Kunstverein, Giulio Paolini, 31 July - 28 August, not repr. |
| 1977 | São Paulo, Pavilhão Armando de Arruda Pereira, Parque Ibirapuera, XIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, 1 October - 18 December, repr. pp. 364-365. |
| 1979 | Athens, Jean & Karen Bernier, Giulio Paolini, 9 May - 5 June. |
| 1992 | Bonn, Bonner Kunstverein, Giulio Paolini. Impressions graphiques. Das graphische Werk 1967-1992, 24 February - 29 March (catalogue Impressions graphiques. L’opera grafica 1967-1992 di Giulio Paolini [Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1992], cat. no. 22). |
| 1992 | Graz, Künstlerhaus, Neue Galerie e Stadtmuseum, Identität: Differenz. Tribüne Trigon 1940-1990. Eine Topografie der Moderne, 3 October - 8 November, not repr. |
| 1993 | Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Giulio Paolini. Impressions graphiques. Das druckgraphische Werk 1967-1992, 16 January - 7 March (catalogue Impressions graphiques. L’opera grafica 1967-1992 di Giulio Paolini [Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1992], cat. no. 22). |
| 1995 | Lisbon, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian / Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Giulio Paolini. Impressions graphiques. Múltiplos e Obra Gráfica 1969-1995, 16 March - 28 May, not repr. in the exhibition brochure (catalogue Impressions graphiques. L’opera grafica 1967-1992 di Giulio Paolini [Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1992], cat. no. 22). |
| 1996 | Apolda, Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, Giulio Paolini. Impressions graphiques, 27 September - 27 October (catalogue Impressions graphiques. L’opera grafica 1967-1992 di Giulio Paolini [Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1992], cat. no. 22). |
| 1997 | Göppingen, Kunsthalle, Giulio Paolini. Impressions graphiques. Das graphische Druckwerk 1967-1995, 9 March - 13 April (catalogue Impressions graphiques. L’opera grafica 1967-1992 di Giulio Paolini [Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1992], cat. no. 22). |
| • | Impressions graphiques. L’opera grafica 1967-1992 di Giulio Paolini (Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1992), cat. no. 22, repr. |
