Anna-logia, 1966

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Archive number

GPO-0114

English title

Anna-logy

Technique

Photo emulsion on canvas, primed canvases, nylon thread

Dimensions

150 x 150 cm (three parts: 150 x 150 cm, 90 x 90 cm, 30 x 30 cm)

Inscriptions by the artist

Signed, titled, and dated on the verso of the larger canvas, upper centre: "Giulio Paolini / Anna-logia / 1966"

Collection

Private collection

Description

Dropping straight down to the centre of a large primed canvas is a photographic canvas, hanging from a nylon thread. At the centre of the photographic canvas is another smaller blank one. In analogy to the iconography of 1421965 (GPO-0076), which portrays the artist in his studio as he moves a blank canvas, the photograph taken by Anna Piva printed on the photo canvas shows him from behind while holding that same work. Hence, the title, which is a combination of the term "analogy" and the name of the artist's future wife, “Anna”.

Sources

Portrait of Giulio Paolini in his studio taken by Anna Piva, 1966.

Exhibitions

1967	Turin, Galleria Christian Stein, Giulio Paolini, from 8 November.
2010-11	Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Che fare? Arte povera - Die historischen Jahre, 7 May - 5 September, touring to: Linz, Lentos Kunstmuseum, 18 February - 29 May 2011, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 372, col. repr. p. 47 (exhibition view Vaduz), repr. p. 197, catalogue entry by M. Disch p. 196 (idem in the English edition); exhibition guide (Vaduz): cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 84 p. 42, not repr.
2011-12	Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977, 13 December 2011 - 11 March 2012, repr. pp. 14-15 (detail), no. 15 p. 42, referred to in the texts by M. Witkovsky (pp. 18-19), A. Rorimer (p. 208).
2016-17	New York, Center for Italian Modern Art, Giorgio de Chirico – Giulio Paolini / Giulio Paolini – Giorgio de Chirico, 14 October 2016 - 24 June 2017, col. repr. p. 30.
2019-20	Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Entrare nell’opera. Prozesse und Aktionen in der Arte Povera, 7 June - 1 September, touring to: Saint-Etienne, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, 30 November 2019 - 3 May 2020, col. repr. p. 185; French edition of the catalogue: not repr.; German edition of the catalogue published in 2021: not repr.

Bibliography

•	C. Lonzi, T. Trini, M. Volpi Orlandini, “Tecniche e materiali”, in Marcatrè 37-38-39 (Milan), May, 1968, repr. p. 82 (incorrect floor installation).
•	G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press, 1972), p. 54, repr. no. 49 p. 53 (erroneously dated “1967”); republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by Id. (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), p. 188; reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019).
•	F. Poli, Giulio Paolini (Turin: Lindau, 1990), repr. no. 73 (erroneously dated “1967”).
•	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. 21 (erroneously dated “1967”).
•	P.G. Castagnoli, “Qui e altrove”, in Giulio Paolini. Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Turin: Hopefulmonster, 1999), p. 15, not repr.
•	Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, op. cit. (Milan: 2003), repr. p. 181 (erroneously dated “1967”).
•	M. Bandini, M.C. Mundici, M.T. Roberto, Luciano Pistoi: "inseguo un mio disegno" (Turin: Hopefulmonster editore, 2008), repr. p. 170 (taken from the catalogue of the group exhibition at Galleria Notizie, Turin 1965; the photograph has been taken by Anna Piva in 1965 and was then used for the work 1421965).
•	M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 114 p. 140, repr.
•	R. Ferrario, Giulio Paolini. Un viaggio a distanza (Busto Arsizio: Nomos Edizioni, 2009), p. 55, repr. p. 54 (cropped on all four sides).
•	Collezione Christian Stein. Una storia dell'arte italiana / A History of Italian Art (Valencia-Lugano-Milan: IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Museo Cantonale d'Arte and Mondadori Electa, 2010), repr. p. 245.
•	F. Fergonzi, “I quadri in casa d’altri”, in Arte moltiplicata. L’immagine del ‘900 italiano nello specchio dei rotocalchi, edited by B. Cinelli et al. (Milan-Turin: Bruno Mondadori-Pearson, 2013), p. 307, repr. p. 308 (installation view at the home of a private collector).
•	"Hypothesis for an Exhibition", exhibition catalogue, New York, Dominique Lévy Gallery, 2014, repr. p. 89.
•	Brera in contemporaneo. Fabro, Garutti, Kounellis, Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan: Johan & Levi editore, 2015), repr. p. 213 (cropped).
•	L. Iamurri, Un margine che sfugge. Carla Lonzi e l’arte in Italia 1955-1970 (Macerata: Quodlibet, 2016), p. 155, not repr.
•	C. Zambianchi, “L’’incerto esito’: note sul fotografico in Giulio Paolini e Giuseppe Penone”, in Lo specchio delle notizie differenti. Memoria, fotografia, arti visive. Studi per Marina Miraglia, edited by M.F. Bonetti, F. Faeta and M. Maffioli (Rome: Campisano Editore, [2021]), p. 212, repr. no. 48.
•	A. Cortellessa, “I rivali invisibili. Paolini e Calvino, evoluzioni fra le cornici”, in Giulio Paolini. O.D.E., exhibition catalogue, Monforte d’Alba (Cuneo), Castello di Perno (Alba: Fondazione Mancini Carini, 2022), p. 92, repr. p. 105 no. 16.
•	R. Minnucci, “Out of Fous: Anna Piva and Giulio Paolini’s Artistic Partnership”, in Art and Intimacy in Modern Italy, edited by S. Hecker and T. Kittler (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025), p. 37, not repr.

Entry by Maddalena Disch, 24/04/2026