Senza titolo, 1963
GPO-0047
Untitled
Masonite panel mounted on a stretcher
44 x 32 cm
Signed and dated on the verso on a white paper square: “Giulio Paolini” (upper left), “1963” (lower left)
Private collection, London
A masonite panel screwed to a stretcher is trimmed along the sides and shaped in all four corners so as to reveal its own support. On the verso is the photographic reproduction of a stock market operator.
This work is part of a group of works (from GPO-0028 to GPO-0049) whose common denominator is the presence of an intervention on both the recto and the verso of the painting. Surfaces of various types take turns appearing on the recto (painted paper, graph paper, photographic reproductions, shaped wooden panels), while on the verso (hidden from view) we find the details of images and printed words taken from magazines or from books (whether or not a textual element is present defines the title of the work or, contrarily, the lack of a title, such as in this case). The subtraction of the painting from its function as a vehicle for an image is a continuation of the study experimented with in some previous works that focus on a subject that, albeit mentioned, remains an unexpressed presence.
| 1964 | Termoli, Palazzo del Comune, IX Premio Castello Svevo Termoli, August, cat. no. 158, not repr. |
| 1973 | Milan, Studio Marconi, Paolini: opere 1961/73, from 15 November, repr. n. pag. (recto). |
| 1975 | Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Müvészeti Törekvések Olaszországban 1930-1968 [Trends of Italian Art 1930-1968], 31 January - 3 March, cat. no. 63, not repr. |
| • | T. Catalano, “Giulio Paolini 1960-1968: il sillogismo dell’immagine”, in Flash Art 12 (Rome), [October], 1969, repr. n. pag. |
| • | G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press, 1972), p. 28, repr. no. 17 p. 29 (recto); republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by Id. (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), p. 110, not repr.; reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019). |
| • | Giulio Paolini (Parma: Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976), repr. no. 26 (recto). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 47 p. 80, col. repr. (recto) and b/w (verso). |
| • | J. Meinhardt, Giulio Paolini. Senza titolo, 1961. In collezione 3 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2015), p. 58, col. repr. p. 59. |
| • | A. Soldaini, G. Paolini, “In dialogo”, in Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), col. repr. p. 83. |
