Amore / Amour / Love, 1967

Archive number

GPO-0129

Technique

Ink on wood

Dimensions

Ø 150 cm

Inscriptions by the artist

Signed and dated on the verso, upper left: “Giulio Paolini / 1967”

Collection

Private collection, Turin

Description

The three versions of the noun “love” referred to in the title – in Italian, French, and English – are each written on one of the wooden bars of the stretcher of the reversed canvas, so that they share the letter "o" inscribed at the point where they cross. The image of the same circular canvas, the "o" serves as a turning point for the "wheel" of interchangeable names, all of which can be referred to the same meaning.
The work corresponds to a variant made that same year (Morire / Mourir / To Die, GPO-0128), with a different word and with a canvas measuring twice the size.

Exhibitions

1967	Venice, Galleria del Leone, Giulio Paolini, from 7 August, cited in the checklist of exhibited works, not repr.
1973	Milan, Studio Marconi, Paolini: opere 1961/73, from 15 November, not repr.
1979	Milan, Rotonda della Besana, Testuale. Le parole e le immagini, June - September, repr. p. 190 (with incorrect caption, referred to another exhibited work).
1990	Turin, Galleria In Arco, Arte Povera, 14 June - 15 September, cat. no. 29, repr. n. pag.
1992	Alessandria, Palazzo Cuttica, Avanguardie in Piemonte 1960-1990, 9-30 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 74, repr. n. pag.

Bibliography

•	Giulio Paolini (Parma: Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976), repr. no. 85.
•	Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), repr. p. 256 (detail), col. repr. p. 257.
•	L.V. Masini, L’arte del Novecento. Dall’Espressionismo al Multimediale, vol. XI: L’Arte come idea (Florence-Rome: Giunti and Gruppo Editoriale Espresso, 2003), col. repr. no. 2846 p. 558.
•	M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 129 p. 151, col. repr. (image oriented incorrectly).
•	R. Cuomo, Giulio Paolini. Lo spazio, 1967. In collezione 4 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2016), p. 68, col. repr. pp. 64, 65 (detail).
•	F. Belloni, Giulio Paolini. Disegno geometrico, 1960. In collezione 6 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2019), p. 64, col. repr. p. 62.
•	Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), repr. p. 142 (exhibition view Milan 1973).

Entry by Maddalena Disch, 28/02/2025