Senza titolo, 1965
GPO-0075
Untitled
Primed canvases mounted one on top of the other
160 x 160 cm
Dismantled work
“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 copy of two previous smaller versions (GPO-0073, GPO-0074); it was made in 1984 for the retrospective at the Nouveau Musée in Villeurbanne (which later travelled to Canada and to Charleroi), and was dismantled when the exhibition ended.
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.
| 1984 | Villeurbanne, Le Nouveau Musée, Giulio Paolini, 20 January - 18 March, not repr. |
| 1985-86 | Montreal, Musée d’art contemporain, Giulio Paolini, 7 July - 8 September, touring to: Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, 29 November 1985 - 19 January 1986 (same catalogue solo exhibition Villeurbanne 1984). |
| 1986 | Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Giulio Paolini, 15 February - 30 March (same catalogue solo exhibition Villeurbanne 1984). |
| • | 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. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 75 p. 105, not repr. |
