Dopo tutto, 2014
GPE-0129
After All
Fine Art print
Hahnemühle cotton paper
35 x 50 cm
Signed on the recto, bottom right on the white background: “Giulio Paolini”
Autograph numbering on the recto, bottom left on the white background
25 in Arabic numerals from 1/25 to 20/25
5 in Roman numerals from I/V to V/V
7 artist’s proofs in Arabic numerals from 1/7 (A.P.) to 7/7 (A.P.)
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Marco Noire Editore, Turin
The print was conceived by the artist for the Whitechapel Gallery, London – directed at the time by Iwona Blazwick – on the occasion of the solo exhibition Giulio Paolini. To Be or Not to Be, presented from 9 July to 14 September 2014. The graphic editions donated from the artists to the Whitechapel Gallery on the occasion of a solo exhibition were destined for sale to support the museum's exhibition and educational activities.
The male figure in the foreground, viewed from behind, is intent on observing a group of rectangular shapes, while a red rectangle is outlined behind him.
Although directed towards a gallery of “paintings”, the protagonist's gaze – a stand-in for the author in the role of viewer – captures nothing: the painting defined by the gilt frame, at his eye level, is empty, like other paintings, which feature a black surface, a partial view of the sky, or a blank surface. Indeed, the subject is not the vision of a painting, but rather the visual act itself: the gaze turned towards the inscrutable horizon of a painting still to be made.
The theme titled Dopo tutto was born in 2009 and had several variations, developed on paper (GPC-1154, GPC-1155, GPC-1158, GPC-1707, GPC-1785) and in large-scale (GPO-0997, GPO-1121).
The original collage from which the print originates is documented in the online Catalogue Raisonné of the works on paper at number GPC-1389.
| 2019 | Turin, Noire Gallery, Giulio Paolini. Promemoria, 12 April - 10 June. |
| • | Carte Noire. Noire Editions 1980/2015 (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2016), col. repr. n. pag. |
