Tre fotogrammi della luce del giorno 9 maggio 1969, 1969
GPO-0172
Three Photograms of Light on 9 May 1969
Photo emulsion on canvas
Three parts 25 x 20 cm each, overall dimensions 25 x 63 cm
Signed and dated on the verso of the first canvas, upper stretcher bar, right: "Giulio Paolini / 1969"; signed, dated, and titled on the verso of the central canvas: "Giulio Paolini 1969" (upper stretcher bar), "Tre fotogrammi della / luce del giorno 9 maggio 1969" (lower stretcher bar); signed and dated on the verso of the third canvas, upper stretcher bar, right: "Giulio Paolini 1969"
Private collection, Ascoli Piceno
The three illegible details, made out of the oversized and out-of-focus enlargement of a negative, are limited to "withholding the irreducible quality of an instant”,1 the artist remarks. Instead of reproducing a subject, the photographs simply express the infinitesimal action of the light on the photosensitive film.
The same theme was formulated in three other variants from the same year, respectively made up of one, four, and seven photo stills (GPO-0171, GPO-0173, GPO-0174).
1 G. Paolini, Giulio Paolini, vol. Figures/Intentions (Villeurbanne: Le Nouveau Musée, 1984), p. 25.
| 1977 | Milan, Studio Marconi, Aphoto. Fotografia come superficie, November - December, repr. p. 63. |
| • | Giulio Paolini (Parma: Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976), repr. no. 120 (incorrect installation). |
| • | Aphoto. Fotografia come superficie, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Studio Marconi, 1977, repr. p. 63. |
| • | I. Mussa, "Aphoto e lo specifico fotografico", in Studio Marconi 1-2 (Milan), 26 January 1978, p. 51, not repr. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 172 p. 190, repr. |
| • | C. Casero, Uno sguardo che riflette (Milan: Meltemi Editore, 2021), pp. 50-51 (in general on the group of works titled Fotogrammi della luce), repr. no. 3.1 p. 50. |
| • | 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. 213, repr. no. 49. |
