Senza titolo, 1964
GPO-0058
Untitled
Plywood panel, primed canvas
Panel 190 x 160 cm, canvas 80 x 80 cm
Signed and dated on the verso of the panel, on a white paper square: "Giulio Paolini / 1964"
MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
Acquired in 2006, inventory no. 13671
A large plywood panel is placed on the ground and tilted up against a smaller panel, hanging on the wall.
The work is one of the eight works exhibited in the first solo exhibition of the artist's work at the Galleria La Salita in Rome in 1964, comprising simple plywood panels that when placed on the ground or hung from the wall, in the artist's words, “‘replace’ the presence of pictures on the walls and analyze the purely conventional rapports of an exhibition”(1973).1 By expanding the gesture that merely suggests the possible vision of a painting, chosen by Paolini from the very outset as a paradigm of his own exploration, these works pave the way to the question that the painting raises at the moment of its exhibition and therefore its perception.
1 G. Paolini, "Note di lavoro", NAC 3 (Milan), March, 1973, p. 10.
| 1964 | Rome, Galleria La Salita, Giulio Paolini, from 31 October. |
| 1990 | Bologna, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Villa delle Rose, Giulio Paolini. Hotel de l’Univers, 27 May - 29 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 5 p. 17, repr. p. 33. |
| 1992 | Bologna, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, La pensée tangible / Il pensiero tangibile. Otto percorsi esemplari in Francia e in Italia, 25 January - 7 March, touring to: Molfetta, Sala dei Templari, March - April; Lille, Château de l’Hermitage, Condé sur l’Escaut, June - August, col. repr. p. 18 (with incorrect dimensions), referred to in the text by A.M. Sauzeau p. 28. |
| 2019 | Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Mostre in mostra. Roma contemporanea dagli anni Cinquanta ai Duemila/1, 30 May - 28 July, no catalogue. |
| • | G. Paolini, “Note di lavoro”, in NAC 3 (Milan), March, 1973, p. 10; republished in Id., Idem (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1975), p. 42, new edition (Milan: Electa, 2023), p. 68. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998), repr. p. 202. |
| • | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna & MAXXI. Le Collezioni 1958-2008, vol. 2, edited by S. Frezzotti, C. Italiano and A. Rorro (Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2009), p. 501 catalogue entry by A. Rorro, col. repr. |
| • | Arte povera 2011, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2011), repr. no. 360 p. 444. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 58 p. 91, repr. |
| • | MAXXI Arte. Catalogo delle collezioni, edited by B. Pietromarchi (Rome-Macerata: MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo and Quodlibet, 2017), p. 237, col. repr. |
