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174, 1965
GPO-0091
Photo print mounted on wooden panel
150 x 120 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso, upper right: "Giulio Paolini / 174 1965"
GAM Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Gift of Eugenio Battisti, 1966, inventory no. MS 120
The photograph reproduces a linear diagram that represents how long the avant-garde movement from the early twentieth century to the late 1960s lasted, starting from the year 1900 and the “Jugendstil”, below, all the way, above, to 1970 and “Popart” [sic], the last current cited corresponding to the early 1960s. The title refers to the page number of the book from which Paolini took the image, in particular, the part of the diagram relating to the most recent developments.1
“The meaning is that of giving the painting itself the measure of the historical place with which it coincides: the painting is thus the extreme and physical limit of the diagram that it reproduces",2 said the artist in 1972.
The work was reproduced in a smaller version during the same year (GPO-0092).
1 The image is taken from K. Kranz, Capire l’arte moderna (Milan: Edizioni di Comunità, 1964).
2 G. Paolini in G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press, 1972), p. 45 (revised translation, republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant [Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003], p. 136), reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019), p. 45.
Kurt Kranz, Capire l’arte moderna (Milan: Edizioni di Comunità, 1964), p. 174.
| 1967 | Turin, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Museo sperimentale d’arte contemporanea, from 26 April, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 50, repr. p. 118. |
| 1974 | New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Projects: Giulio Paolini, 21 March - 14 April, no catalogue; exhibition copy. |
| 1975 | Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Müvészeti Törekvések Olaszországban 1930-1968 [Tendenze dell’arte in Italia dal 1930 al 1968], 31 January - 3 March, cat. no. 64, not repr.; exhibition copy (100 × 70 cm). |
| 1976 | Parma, Palazzo della Pilotta, Sala delle Scuderie, Giulio Paolini, 11 March - 21 April, repr. no. 49, referred to in the text by M. Fagiolo p. 28; exhibition copy. |
| 1977 | Mannheim, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Giulio Paolini, 31 July - 28 August, not repr.; exhibition copy (24 × 30 cm). |
| 1982 | Villeurbanne, Le Nouveau Musée, Une introduction à l’œuvre de Giulio Paolini 1960/70. Artiste invité de l’année, 16 September - 31 October, no catalogue; exhibition copy. |
| 1984 | Villeurbanne, Le Nouveau Musée, Giulio Paolini, 20 January - 18 March, vol. Images/Index, repr. p. 40; exhibition copy (100 × 70 cm). |
| 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 and same exhibition copy as for the solo exhibition in Villeurbanne 1984. |
| 1985-86 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli, Il Museo Sperimentale di Torino. Arte italiana degli anni Sessanta nelle collezioni della Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, 18 December 1985 - February 1986, repr. pp. 305, 436, 460. |
| 1986 | Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Giulio Paolini, 15 February - 30 March, same catalogue and same exhibition copy as for the solo exhibition in Villeurbanne 1984. |
| 2000-01 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Arte povera in collezione, 6 December 2000 - 25 March 2001, col. repr. pp. 96 (exhibition view), 205, catalogue entry by M. Disch p. 204. |
| 2007-08 | Turin, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Venticinque anni d’arte 1982-2007, 27 November 2007 - 27 January 2008, no catalogue. |
| 2009 | Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, I giovani che visitano le nostre rovine non vi vedono che uno stile, 18 June - 30 August, in the brochure with exhibited works: cited and repr. no. 1; in the catalogue: not repr., referred to in the text by FormContent p. 17. |
| 2020-23 | Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Il primato dell’opera. Il nuovo allestimento della collezione del Novecento storico, 26 September 2020 - 8 October 2023, no catalogue. |
| 2024-25 | Paris, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Arte Povera, 9 October 2024 - 20 January 2025, repr. no. 7 p. 246, catalogue entry by S.M.S. Cammarata p. 245. |
| • | G. Paolini in the interview with M. Pistoi, “Giulio Paolini”, in Marcatrè 19-22 (Milan), April, 1966, p. 385; republished in Giulio Paolini. La voce del pittore – Scritti e interviste 1965-1995, edited by M. Disch (Lugano: ADV Publishing House, 1995), p. 145. |
| • | G. Paolini in G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press, 1972), p. 42; republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant. (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), p. 136; reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019). |
| • | G. Celant, “Crónica de Italia. Giulio Paolini y Piero Dorazio”, in Forma nueva el inmueble 14 (Madrid), March, pp. 63-64, not repr.; republished as “Prima della ‘pittura’, Giulio Paolini”, in Marcatrè 30-33 (Milan), July, 1967, p. 269, repr. p. 273 (with incorrect description of the work), and later in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by Id. (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), p. 206. |
| • | C. Lonzi, Autoritratto (Bari: De Donato Editore, 1969), repr. no. 1 p. 13 (caption p. 397); German edition: Selbstbildnis/Autoritratto. Zur Situation der italienischen Kunst um 1967 (Bern-Berlin: Verlag Gachnang & Springer, 2000), repr. no. 1 p. 21 (caption p. 328); new Italian edition: (Milan: Et al./Edizioni, 2010), repr. no. 1 p. 9 (caption with descriptive note by M. Disch p. 307); French edition: Autoportrait, edited by G. Zapperi (Paris-Zurich: La Maison Rouge and JRP|Ringier, 2012), repr. p. 44; English edition: Self-portrait (Brussels-London: Divided Publishing, 2021), repr. p. 18; new Italian edition: (Milan: La Tartaruga, 2024), repr. no. 1 p. 21 (caption p. 403). |
| • | Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Land Art, exhibition catalogue, Turin, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, 1970, repr. p. 96 (caption p. 203). |
| • | G. Celant, Giulio Paolini, op. cit., pp. 40, 42, repr. no. 35 p. 43; republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, op. cit., pp. 134, 136. |
| • | R. Guasco, “I movimenti dell’arte contemporanea”, in Rivista Rai 24, November-December, 1972, repr. p. 61. |
| • | T. Trini, “Giulio Paolini”, in Art press 4 (Paris), May-June, 1973, p. 15, not repr. |
| • | G. Celant, “Image of the Image”, in Art and Artists 9, no. 98 (London), May, 1974, p. 14, repr. (detail); republished in G. Celant, Senza titolo 1974 (Rome: Bulzoni, 1976), p. 260, not repr. |
| • | I. Calvino, “La squadratura”, in G. Paolini, Idem (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1975), p. XII, repr. pp. 18-19 (rotated by 90 degrees anticlockwise); republished in Semiotiche della pittura. I classici. Le ricerche, edited by L. Corrain (Rome: Meltemi editore, 2004), p. 234, not repr.; new edition (Milan: Electa, 2023), p. 14, repr. pp. 44-45 (rotated by 90 degrees anticlockwise). |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1980, repr. p. 16. |
| • | Identité Italienne. L’art en Italie depuis 1959, edited by G. Celant (Paris-Florence: Centre Georges Pompidou and Centro Di, 1981), repr. p. 159. |
| • | W.M. Faust, “Et quid amabo: Notizen zu Arbeiten von Giulio Paolini”, in Giulio Paolini. Del bello intelligibile, exhibition catalogue, Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1982, p. 12, repr. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. “Tutto qui”, exhibition catalogue, Ravenna, Pinacoteca Comunale, Loggetta Lombardesca (Ravenna: Agenzia Editoriale Essegi, 1985), repr. no. 3. |
| • | Il Museo Sperimentale di Torino. Arte italiana degli anni Sessanta nelle collezioni della Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, edited by M. Bandini and R. Maggio Serra (Turin-Milan: Musei Civici di Torino and Fabbri Editori, 1985), pp. 436, 460 (note on a restoration of the work), repr. pp. 305, 436, 460. |
| • | M. Scholz-Hänsel, “Das imaginäre Museum Giulio Paolinis”, in Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1986, vol. 2, pp. 14-15, not repr. |
| • | F. Poli, “Note di lettura”, in Id., Giulio Paolini (Turin: Lindau, 1990), p. 35, not repr.; republished in Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998), pp. 57, 59, not repr. |
| • | Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Torino. Il Novecento. Catalogo delle opere esposte, edited by R. Maggio Serra and R. Passoni (Turin-Milan: Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea and Fabbri Editori, 1993), catalogue entry by M.T. Roberto p. 562, repr. |
| • | F. Pasini, “Giulio Paolini. Una mostra lunga un anno”, in Flash Art 184 (Milan, Italian edition), May, 1994, repr. p. 26 (cropped on left and right sides). |
| • | F. Poli, “Giulio Paolini”, in Giulio Paolini al Palazzo della Ragione, exhibition catalogue, Padua, Salone del Palazzo della Ragione (Milan: Fabbri Editori, 1995), p. 33, not repr. |
| • | J. de Sanna, Forma. L’idea degli artisti 1943-1997 (Ancona-Milan: Universitaria Costa & Nolan, 1999), p. 110, not repr. |
| • | Arte povera in collezione (Rivoli-Milan: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Edizioni Charta, 2000), catalogue entry by M. Disch p. 204, repr. pp. 205, 96 (exhibition view Rivoli 2000-01). |
| • | A. Rorimer, New Art in the 60s and 70s. Redefining Reality (London: Thames & Hudson, 2001), p. 65, repr. p. 36. |
| • | Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, op. cit. (Milan: 2003), repr. p. 131. |
| • | R. Lumley, Arte Povera (London: Tate Publishing, 2004), pp. 12-13, repr. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 91 p. 120, repr. |
| • | Torino sperimentale 1959-1969. Una storia della cronaca: il sistema delle arti come avanguardia, edited by L.M. Barbero (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 2010), repr. p. 394. |
| • | S. Gronert, “Art History as Art: A Survey”, in Gerhard Richter. Early Work 1951-1972, edited by C. Mehring, J.A. Nugent, and J.L. Seydl (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2010), pp. 139-141, repr. p. 139. |
| • | D. Viva, “L'immagine rimediata. Diagrammi e riproduzioni di opere pittoriche come fonti visive negli anni sessanta”, in Palinsesti. Contemporary Italian Art On-Line Journal 1, no. 1 (Udine), [April], 2011, pp. 77-78, repr. |
| • | F. Pola, “Media immateriali per materializzare il tutto. Fotografia e film nell'Arte Povera”, in Arte povera 2011, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2011), p. 603, not repr. |
| • | M. Dantini, “Gradus ad Parnassum. Giulio Paolini, ‘Autoritratto’, 1969”, in Palinsesti. Contemporary Italian Art On-Line Journal 1, no. 2 (Udine), 2011, p. 2, repr.; republished in Id., Geopolitiche dell'arte (Milan: Christian Marinotti Edizioni, 2012), p. 92, not repr. |
| • | F. Pola, “L’immagine mediata”, in Imagine. Nuove immagini nell’arte italiana 1960-1969, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice: Marsilio Editori, 2016), p. 193, repr. (portrait of the artist with the work in his studio). |
| • | C. Zambianchi, “Riflesso nel tempo. Note sul senso della storia nell’opera di Giulio Paolini”, in S. Bann et al., Il passato al presente. In tema 2 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2016), pp. 34, 36, repr. p. 20. |
| • | D. Viva, “La storia in abisso. Letteratura, fotografia e passato”, ibid., pp. 67-71. |
| • | D. Soutif, “Filigrane. Paolini, il primo quadro e la storia dell’arte”, ibid., pp. 97-102; republished in French in Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne 137 (Paris), Autumn, 2016, pp. 82-83, repr. p. 81. |
| • | G. Zapperi, Carla Lonzi. Un’arte della vita (Rome: DeriveApprodi, 2017), p. 123, repr. p. 124. |
| • | Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy. The Legacy of Carla Lonzi, edited by F. Ventrella and G. Zapperi (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020), p. 46, repr. p. 47 (illustration of the work reproduced in C. Lonzi's Autoritratto). |
| • | E. Antenucci, “Staging Interruption: Quotation, Montage, and Feminist Thought in Carla Lonzi’s Autoritratto”, in The Italianist 43, no. 1 (London), quarterly online journal, 11 December 2023, p. 97, repr. p. 98. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 28/02/2025
