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Senza titolo, 1966
GPO-0093
Untitled
Hectograph pencil and tempera on unprimed canvas
200.5 x 201.5 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso, centre: “Giulio Paolini / Senza titolo 1966”
Fondazione Guido ed Ettore De Fornaris – GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Acquired in 1991, inventory no. FD 372
From summer 2001 to 31 December 2003 on loan at La Farnesina (Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale), Rome
At the centre of an unprimed canvas a hectograph pencil is used to outline a square painted with white tempera, whose dimensions correspond to half of those of the canvas. The slightly irregular pattern of the outline made by the pencil “copies” the edges of the canvas, thus calling into question the relationship between the painted surface and the canvas containing it.
The theme of the “painting within a painting” is a continuation of the artist's early studies, conducted in 1964 (with a wooden panel suspended at the centre of a larger panel, GPO-0052), and delved into more deeply in 1965 through photography (Duepiudue e Eterna, GPO-0069, GPO-0070).
| 1966 | Milan, Galleria dell’Ariete, Giulio Paolini, from 15 April, cat. no. 3 (the date “1965” refers to the first state of the work), not repr. |
| 1967 | Turin, Galleria Christian Stein, Giulio Paolini, from 8 November. |
| 1998-99 | Mantua, Casa del Mantegna, "Viaggio in Italia 1998-2000: Torino". Da Fontanesi a Casorati a..., 13 December 1998 - 14 February 1999, col. repr. n. pag., catalogue entry by R. Passoni. |
| 2001 | Rome, Ministero degli Esteri, Artisti italiani del XX secolo alla Farnesina, Summer, col. repr. p. 120 no. 87. |
| 2009-11 | Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Le collezioni della GAM, 23 October 2009 - February 2011, catalogue published in 2011, vol. I, col. repr. pp. 204-205 (exhibition view), referred to in the text by R. Passoni p. 174. |
| 2011-13 | Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Quattro tematiche per le collezioni della GAM, 4 March 2011- February 2013, vol. Collezioni. Volume terzo: Allestimento 2011-2013 (Turin: 2012), cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 332, not repr., referred to in the text by E. Volpato p. 212; installed in the section titled "Malinconia". |
| 2013-16 | Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Nuovi percorsi della Collezione della GAM, 29 March 2013 - Summer 2016, vol. Collezioni. Volume quarto: Allestimento 2013-2014 (Turin: 2015), cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 282, col. repr. pp. 35, 41-42 (exhibition view), referred to in the text by D. Eccher p. 35. |
| 2019-20 | Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Pittura Spazio Scultura. Le collezioni del contemporaneo, 14 February 2019 - 4 October 2020, no catalogue. |
| 2025 | Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Seconda Risonanza. Ritmo, struttura e segno, from 16 April, selected works from the collection, no catalogue. |
| • | Fondazione Guido ed Ettore De Fornaris. Arte moderna a Torino II. Opere d’arte e documenti acquisiti per la Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino 1986-1992, edited by R. Maggio Serra (Turin: Fondazione Guido ed Ettore De Fornaris and Umberto Allemandi & C., 1993), pp. 71, 82, commentary by R. Passoni p. 366, b/w repr. p. 367, col. repr. n. pag. |
| • | Arte povera in collezione (Rivoli-Milan: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Edizioni Charta, 2000), catalogue entry by M. Disch p. 206 (erroneously dated "1965"), col. repr. p. 207. |
| • | Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), repr. p. 175 (reproduction of the first state, with caption referred to the second state of the work). |
| • | Venticinque anni d'arte. 1982-2007. Acquisizioni 1982-2007 per la GAM di Torino, exhibition catalogue, Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, 2007, p. 70, not repr. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 93 p. 122, col. repr. |
| • | Collezioni, edited by D. Eccher (Turin: GAM Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea and Umberto Allemandi & C., 2011), vol. I: p. 174 (referred to in the text by R. Passoni), col. repr. pp. 204-205 (exhibition view Turin 2009-11); vol. II: pp. 460-461 cat. no. 196 (catalogue entry by F. Cafagna), col. repr. |
| • | Trent'anni d'arte 1982-2012, edited by M. Paglieri (Turin-Savigliano: Fondazione De Fornaris and L'Artistica Editrice, 2012), p. 24, col. repr. nos. 21, 94 p. 25 (cited in the list of acquired works p. 211). |
| • | Collezioni. Volume terzo: Allestimento 2011-2013, edited by D. Eccher (Turin: GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea and Umberto Allemandi & C., 2012), pp. 212 (referred to in the text by E. Volpato), 332, not repr. |
| • | Collezioni. Volume quarto: Allestimento 2013-2014, edited by D. Eccher (Turin: GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea and Umberto Allemandi & C., 2015), p. 35 (referred to in the text by D. Eccher), col. repr. pp. 35, 41-42. |
| • | F. Guzzetti, “‘Non si trattava di elaborare degli spazi astratti’: Giulio Paolini all’Ariete, 1966”, in Spazi astratti. Interferenze fra architettura e arti a Milano 1945-1970, edited by A.V. Navone, L. Tedeschi, and S. Setti (Milan: Electa, 2024), pp. 125, 129, 130, 134, repr. p. 126 (exhibition view Milan 1966, erroneously dated “1965”). |
| • | F. Guzzetti, Collezionare il futuro. Visioni dell’arte moderna italiana nelle opere della Fondazione De Fornaris (Milan, Skira editore, 2025), pp. 161-163, col. repr. no. XIV. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 23/04/2026
