Senza titolo, 1965
GPO-0074
Untitled
Primed canvases mounted one on top of the other
50 x 50 cm
Signed and dated on the verso, upper stretcher bar, left: “Giulio Paolini / 1965”
Private collection
“Two primed canvases are mounted one atop the other, as if the conventional support used for a painting – the blank canvas – could only present, rather than an image, the pure acknowledgement of its existence: instead of exhausting itself in the definition of an image, the canvas tends to renew itself via its own repetition”,1 according to the artist, in retrospect.
The work is a smaller copy of the first version made during the same year, which measured 100 x 100 cm (GPO-0074).
1 G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2005), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 73 p. 104.
| • | G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2005), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 73 p. 104. |
| • | G. Celant, Un folle amore. La Collezione Luigi e Peppino Agrati (Milan: Skira editore, 2002), col. repr. p. 278, cat. no. 390 entry p. 403 (with incorrect technique). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 74 p. 105, col. repr. |
| • | L’arte moderna in Intesa Sanpaolo. La collezione Luigi e Peppino Agrati, edited by C. Pirovano and F. Tedeschi (Milan: Electa, 2012), cat. no. 364 pp. 298-299 entry by K. McManus, col. repr. p. 298. |
