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Elegia, 1969
GPO-0196
Elegy
Plaster cast with mirror fragment
15 x 15 x 11 cm
The work was executed in a numbered edition of three. What is currently edition 3/3 [b] was produced on the occasion of the artist’s solo show in Zurich in 1973, after the original edition 3/3 [a], acquired by Michelangelo Pistoletto, was lost while the 1972 Documenta 5 in Kassel was being installed.
| 1/3 | Paul Maenz Collection, Berlin |
| 2/3 | Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini, Turin |
| 3/3 [a] | Present whereabouts unknown |
| 3/3 [b] | Annemarie and Gianfranco Verna Collection, Zurich |
| 1/3 | From 1998 to 2005 on loan at Neues Museum, Weimar |
| 2/3 | Gift of the artist, 25 October 2012, archive no. GPO-0196 |
The work should be installed on an opaque white plinth (depending on the dimensions of the site) 90 x 40 x 40 cm or 100 x 50 x 50 cm) and protected by a plexiglas case (40 x 40 x 40 cm or 50 x 50 x 50 cm).
The cast should be placed at the centre of a support plane and in a slightly tilted position with respect to the sides of the plinth (in other words, the sides of the cast must not be parallel to those of the plinth). The cast must be slightly lifted from the posterior end (corresponding to the eyebrow) with the help of a small support (white or transparent) so as to create a slight shadow.
In this first use of the plaster cast, Paolini set a fragment of mirror in place of the pupil in the right eye of Michelangelo’s David (1501-04).
“Elegia is the objective transfiguration of a phenomenon, sight, which refuses objectification: the cast of the eye is made of plaster, and the pupil is made of mirror; as such it becomes the copy and simulacrum of a phenomenon that is exterior to the object”,1 the artist says.
At the 1970 Venice Biennale, Paolini installed the work separately inside a wide empty space with four open corners, which he had built in the Pavilion dedicated to his work. His first idea had been to install an anthological series of works, but at the last moment he chose instead to exclusively show Elegia, as it conceptually “constituted the final and definitive ‘gaze’ upon all the works that had come before it”.2
1 G. Paolini in G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press 1972), p. 89 (revised translation, republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant [Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003], p. 282}, reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019), p. 89.
2 G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2003), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 196 p. 209.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, David, 1501-04, marble, h 410 x 199 cm, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Florence.
| 1970 | Rome, QUI arte contemporanea, Giulio Paolini. Vedo, 20 January - 7 February, cited in the checklist of exhibited works, not repr., referred to in the text by M. Volpi Orlandini. |
| 1970 | Turin, Galleria Notizie, Giulio Paolini. Vedo, 18 February - 20 March, cited in the checklist of exhibited works, repr., referred to in the text by M. Volpi Orlandini. |
| 1970 | Venice, Giardini di Castello, La Biennale di Venezia. 35a Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, 24 June - 25 October, mentioned as exhibited p. 72, repr. nos. 56 (exhibition view), 57. |
| 1973 | Zurich, Galerie Annemarie Verna, Giulio Paolini, 19 October - 30 November; edition 3/3 [b]. |
| 1974 | Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, 4 aus Italien. Alfano, Di Bello, Calzolari, Paolini, 9 March - 21 April, repr. |
| 1976 | Paris, Galerie Eric et Xiane Germain, Paul Maenz à Paris, 28 February - 20 March; edition 1/3. |
| 1976 | Parma, Palazzo della Pilotta, Sala delle Scuderie, Giulio Paolini, 11 March - 21 April, repr. no. 113, referred to in the text by M. Fagiolo p. 22. |
| 1977 | Mannheim, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Giulio Paolini, 31 July - 28 August, commentaries by G. Paolini and P. Maenz p. 38, repr. p. 39; edition 1/3. |
| 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. |
| 1983 | Bonn, Bonner Kunstverein, Concetto-Imago. Generationswechsel in Italien, 18 March - 1 May, repr. p. 16; edition 1/3. |
| 1983 | Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Eine Kunst-Geschichte in Turin 1965-1983, 8 October - 13 November, repr. p. 83; edition 1/3. |
| 1984 | Villeurbanne, Le Nouveau Musée, Giulio Paolini, 20 January - 18 March, vol. Images/Index repr. p. 64; edition 2/3. |
| 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 edition as for the solo exhibition in Villeurbanne 1984. |
| 1986 | Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Giulio Paolini, 15 February - 30 March, same catalogue and same edition as for the solo exhibition in Villeurbanne 1984. |
| 1986 | Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Giulio Paolini, 20 September - 2 November, cited in the checklist of exhibited works vol. 4 no. 13 p. 51, repr. vol. 2 p. 25 and vol. 1 p. 26, referred to in the texts by G. Inboden vol. 1 p. 26, M. Scholz-Hänsel vol. 2 p. 12; edition 1/3. |
| 1995 | Venice, San Stae, Ca’ Pesaro, Galleria Internazionaled’Arte Moderna, Biennale di Venezia: XLVI Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte. Venezia e la Biennale: percorsi del gusto (section: Dipinti e sculture 1895-1972), 11 June - 15 October, repr. no. 166 p. 314; general catalogue of the Biennale: cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 257, not repr.; edition 2/3. |
| 1999 | Weimar, Neues Museum, Auffrischender Wind aus wechselnden Richtungen. Internationale Avantgarde seit 1960: Die Sammlung Paul Maenz, 1 January - 31 December, repr. no. 77 p. 114, catalogue entry by H. Dickel, repr. pp. 310, 321 (exhibition view); edition 1/3. |
| 1999 | Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Giulio Paolini. Da oggi a ieri, 8 May - 25 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 25 p. 37, repr. pp. 9, 68 (exhibition view Weimar 1999); edition 2/3. |
| 2003-04 | Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Global Village: The 60s, 2 October 2003 - 18 January 2004, touring to: Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, 19 February - 23 May 2004, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 145 p. 198, repr. p. 149; edition 2/3. |
| 2003 | Milan, Fondazione Prada, Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, 29 October - 18 December, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 402, repr. p. 299; edition 3/3 [b]. |
| 2005 | Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Giulio Paolini. Esposizione universale, 23 April - 24 June, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 3 p. 86, repr. n. pag. (exhibition view), referred to in the text by D. Schwarz p. 19; edition 3/3 [b]. |
| 2005 | Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Giulio Paolini. Esposizione universale, 1 October 2005 - 8 January 2006, same catalogue as for the solo exhibition in Winterthur 2005; edition 1/3. |
| 2006 | Lugano, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, L’immagine del vuoto. Una linea di ricerca nell’arte in Italia 1958-2006, 7 October 2006 - 7 January 2007, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 87 p. 279, repr. p. 252, referred to in the text by E. Volpato p. 92; edition 2/3. |
| 2010 | Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Che fare? Arte povera – Die historischen Jahre, 7 May - 5 September 2010, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 372, repr. p. 204 (with exhibition view Venice 1970), entry by M. Disch p. 204 (idem in the English edition); in the exhibition guide (Vaduz) cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 53 p. 19, not repr.; edition 3/3b; exhibited only in Vaduz. |
| 2011-12 | Naples, MADRE Museo di Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Chiesa Donnaregina Vecchia, Arte Povera più Azioni Povere 1968, 11 November 2011 - 20 February 2012, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 684, repr. no. 382 p. 468; edition 2/3. |
| 2017 | Florence, Galleria Palatina, Ytalia. Energia Pensiero Bellezza. Tutto è connesso, 2 June - 1 October, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 215, col. repr. pp. 122, 123 (exhibition views), referred to in the text by L. Conte p. 195; edition 2/3. |
| 2018-19 | Milan, Fondazione Carriero, Giulio Paolini. Del bello ideale, 26 October 2018 • 10 February 2019, col. repr. vol. 1 pp. 148-149 (exhibition view), 162.; edition 2/3. |
| • | G. Paolini in Giulio Paolini. Vedo, exhibition catalogue, Turin, Galleria Notizie, 1970; republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), p. 299. |
| • | G. Paolini in G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press, 1972), p. 84; republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, op. cit. (Milan: 2003), p. 282; reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019). |
| • | G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2003), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 196 p. 209. |
| • | G. Paolini in the interview with C. Giraud, "Paolini & Tirelli. Faccia a faccia con l’arte", in Artribune 3, nos. 13-14 (Rome), May-August, 2013, p. 68. |
| • | M. Volpi Orlandini, La retina e l’inconscio. Note di arte contemporanea (Palermo: Palumbo Editore, 1973), pp. 150-151, not repr. (taken from Giulio Paolini. Vedo, exhibition catalogue, Turin, Galleria Notizie, 1970); republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), p. 308. |
| • | M. Chiantelassa Gioia, "La casa-collezione di Pistoletto", in Bolaffiarte 3, no. 18 (Turin), March, 1972, repr. pp. 96-97. |
| • | Documenta 5, exhibition catalogue, Kassel, Documenta, 1972, repr. p. 16.60, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 32, the work was stolen during installation. |
| • | G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press, 1972), p. 84, repr. no. 79 p. 83; republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, op. cit. (Milan: 2003), p. 282; reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019). |
| • | T. Trini, "Giulio Paolini", in Art press 4 (Paris), May-June, 1973, p. 16, not repr. |
| • | T. Trini, “Giulio Paolini, un decennio. Parte prima: Il vero e il visibile”, in Data 3, no. 7-8, (Milan), Summer, 1973, p. 61, repr. p. 63; republished in Tommaso Trini. Mezzo secolo di arte intera. Scritti 1964-2014, edited by L. Cerizza (Milan: Johan & Levi Editore, 2016), p. 106, not repr.). |
| • | G. Paolini, Idem (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1975), repr. p. 40; new edition (Milan: Electa, 2023), repr. p. 66. |
| • | T. Trini, "Paolini. Le sprigioni", in Studio Marconi 3-4 (Milan), 5 February 1976, p. 5, not repr.; republished in an enlarged version titled "Come l’immaginario si ribella all’immaginazione", in Data 20 (Milan), March-April, 1976, p. 89, not repr., and in Tommaso Trini, op. cit. (Milan: 2016), pp. 114-115, not repr. |
| • | Ottant’anni di allestimenti alla Biennale, exhibition catalogue, Venice, La Biennale di Venezia, Archivio storico delle arti contemporanee, 1977, cat. no. 431 p. 43, repr. no. 431 p. 96 (exhibition view Venice 1970). |
| • | Paolo Mussat Sartor Fotografo 1968-1978. Arte e artisti in Italia (Turin: Stampatori Editore, 1979), repr. p. 172. |
| • | I. Tomassoni, "Giulio Paolini", in Flash Art 94-95 (Milan, Italian edition), January-February, 1980, pp. 5, 6, not repr. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Premio Bolaffi 1980 (Turin: Giulio Bolaffi Editore, 1980), repr. p. 7 (exhibition view Parma 1976). |
| • | Kunstforum International 39, monographic issue Italienische Kunst heute edited by M. Grüteric (Mainz), March, 1980, repr. p. 76. |
| • | "Stedelijk Museum. Giulio Paolini", in Bulletin Stedelijk Museum 4 (Amsterdam), 1980, repr. p. 52. |
| • | "Una pagina di occhi / Eyes", in Domus 612 (Milan), December, 1980, repr. p. 52. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Werke und Schriften 1960- 1980 (Lucerne: Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1981), repr. n. pag. (exhibition view Parma 1976). |
| • | Identité Italienne. L’art en Italie depuis 1959, edited by G. Celant (Paris-Florence: Centre Georges Pompidou and Centro Di, 1981), p. 321, repr. |
| • | 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. 14, repr. p. 15. |
| • | Documenta 7, exhibition catalogue, Kassel, Documenta (Kassel: D+V Paul Dierichs GmbH & Co KG, 1982), vol. 1, repr. p. 184. |
| • | Il modo italiano, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, 1984, vol. 1, repr. p. 119. |
| • | Der Traum des Orpheus. Mythologie in der italienischen Gegenwartskunst 1967 bis 1984, exhibition catalogue, Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 1984, repr. p. 79. |
| • | A. Mammì, I. Panicelli, "Giulio Paolini. Bibliografia", in Giulio Paolini. La Casa di Lucrezio, exhibition catalogue, Spoleto, Palazzo Rosari Spada (Casalecchio di Reno: Grafis Edizioni, 1984), p. 14, repr. p. 15; republished in Markus Lüpertz, Giulio Paolini: figure, colonne, finestre, exhibition catalogue, Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli, 1986, p. 77, not repr. |
| • | C. Spadoni, "Giulio Paolini", in Figure. Teoria e critica dell’arte 3, no. 7 (Rome), 1984, p. 96, not repr.; republished in Id., Storie d’arte e di critica tra Ottocento e Novecento (Imola: Maretti Editore, 2021), p. 252, not. repr. |
| • | G. Paolini, "Trionfo della rappresentazione", in Furor 12 (Geneva), October, 1984, repr. no. 1. |
| • | Italia Aperta, exhibition catalogue, Madrid, Fundación Caja de Pensiones, 1985, repr. no. 41 p. 122. |
| • | S. Vertone, "Non tutto qui", in Giulio Paolini. "Tutto qui", exhibition catalogue, Ravenna, Pinacoteca Comunale, Loggetta Lombardesca (Ravenna: Agenzia Editoriale Essegi, 1985), p. 38, repr. no. 18. |
| • | H. Gamper, Horváths komplexe Textur (Zurich: Ammann Verlag, 1987), repr. on cover. |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Nagoya, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1987, repr. p. 20. |
| • | G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. p. 131 (exhibition view Parma 1976). |
| • | Ugo Mulas. Vent’anni di Biennale 1954-1972 (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1988), repr. p. 184 (exhibition view Venice 1970). |
| • | "Dossier Arte Povera", in Opus International 111 (Paris), November-December, 1988, repr. p. 23. |
| • | G. Joppolo, Arte povera, Actualité des arts plastiques 76 (Paris: Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique, 1988), p. 53, the booklet includes a slide. |
| • | F. Poli, "Note di lettura", in Id., Giulio Paolini (Turin: Lindau, 1990), p. 30, repr. no. 79; 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), p. 49. |
| • | Arte Povera 1971 und 20 Jahre danach, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Kunstverein München (Cologne: Du Mont Buchverlag, 1991), repr. p. 64. |
| • | G. de Marchis, Scusi ma è arte questa? Guida illustrata all’avanguardia e alla neoavanguardia (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1991), p. 280, repr. p. 359. |
| • | M. Bouisset, Arte Povera (Paris: Éditions du Regard, 1994), repr. p. 72. |
| • | F. Pasini, "Giulio Paolini. Una mostra lunga un anno", in Flash Art 184 (Milan, Italian edition), May, 1994, repr. p. 26. |
| • | L. Cherubini, "Traguardo dello sguardo", in Giulio Paolini. L’opera in palio, exhibition catalogue, Siena, Salone di Palazzo Patrizi (Florence: Maschietto & Musolino, 1994), p. 11, not repr. |
| • | Roma in mostra 1970 1979. Materiali per la documentazione di mostre azioni performance dibattiti, edited by D. Lancioni (Rome: Edizioni Joyce & Co., 1995), p. 30, repr. no. 1 p. 28. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Correspondances, exhibition catalogue, Rome, French Academy, Villa Medici (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1996), repr. p. 37. |
| • | E. Di Raddo, "Verso i Settanta (1968-70). Arte in Italia negli anni ’70", in Verso i Settanta (1968-70). Arte in Italia negli anni ’70, exhibition catalogue, Erice, "La Salerniana", ex Convento di San Carlo (Milan: Edizioni Charta, 1996), p. 42, not repr. |
| • | D. von Drathen, "Giulio Paolini. Der blinde Blick des Sehers", in Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst 33, no. 7 (Munich: Weltkunst-Bruckmann Verlag, 1996), p. 6, repr. p. 5; republished in Id., Vortex of silence. Proposition for an art criticism beyond aesthetic categories (Milan: Edizioni Charta, 2004), p. 223, not repr. |
| • | G. Joppolo, L’Arte Povera. Les années fondatrices (Paris: Fall Edition, 1996), repr. p. 43 (with incorrect technique). |
| • | C. Bertola, "Il quadro che contiene tutti i quadri", in Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, op. cit. (Ostfildern-Ruit: 1998), p. 105, repr. p. 231. |
| • | M. Unterdörfer, Die Rezeption der Antike in der Postmoderne: der Gipsabguss in der italienischen Kunst der siebziger und achtziger Jahre (Weimar: VDG Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, 1998), pp. 51, 95, 177, cat. no. 24 p. 139, repr. no. 49 p. 231. |
| • | "Dossier: Arte Povera", in Ligeia 25-28 (Paris), October 1998 - June 1999, repr. p. 91 (flipped horizontally, with incorrect technique). |
| • | Die Sammlung Paul Maenz Neues Museum Weimar. Band I: Objekte, Bilder, Installationen, Neues Museum, Weimar (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999), repr. p. 114 cat. no. 77, with entry by H. Dickel p. 114, repr. pp. 310, 321 (exhibition view Weimar 1999). |
| • | C. Christov-Bakargiev, Arte Povera (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1999), repr. p. 134. |
| • | J. de Sanna, Forma. L’idea degli artisti 1943-1997 (Ancona-Milan: Universitaria Costa & Nolan, 1999), pp. 110, 176, 185, 186, not repr. |
| • | J. Lund, "The Space of Thought", in L’altra figura: Giulio Paolini. Art in Context 3 (Oslo: Museet for Samtidskunst, 2000), p. 22, repr. p. 10. |
| • | N. Bätzner, Arte Povera. Zwischen Erinnerung und Ereignis: Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis (Nuremberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2000), pp. 96-97, repr. p. 96. |
| • | Trasalimenti, progetto per l'arte contemporanea. Artisti per Tullio Catalano, exhibition catalogue, Castelbasso, Borgo Medievale, 2000, repr. p. 55 (exhibition view Venice 1970). |
| • | D. Lancioni, "Giulio Paolini", in Oggi per domani. Cinque artisti contemporanei nella Collezione BSI, exhibition catalogue, Lugano, Museo Cantonale d’Arte (Milan: Skira editore, 2001), p. 50, repr. |
| • | C. Gilman, "Reconsidering Arte Povera", in Arte Povera: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection, exhibition catalogue, New York, Columbia University in the City of New York, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, 2001, p. 38, repr. |
| • | P. Maenz, Art is to change... Skizzen aus der Umlaufbahn (Regensburg: Lindinger + Schmid Verlag, 2002), repr. p. 2. |
| • | G. Cortenova, Dal Naufragio... e Ritorno. L’arte negli anni delle ideologie (Milan: Giampaolo Prearo Editore, 2002), repr. p. 121 (exhibition view Venice 1970). |
| • | Bella pittura. Meisterwerke italienischer Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert aus den Sammlungen der Stadt Mailand, exhibition catalogue, Weimar, Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, 2002, repr. p. 281 (artist’s portrait with Elegia at the Venice Biennale, 1970). |
| • | Paolo Mussat Sartor. Artisti e opere. Portraits, exhibition catalogue, Nice, Galerie contemporaine du Musée d’Art moderne et d’Art contemporain, 2003, repr. n. pag. |
| • | C. Sisi, "Intorno al David, nel Novecento", in Forme per il David / Forms for the David. Baselitz, Fabro, Kounellis, Morris, Struth, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Galleria dell’Accademia (Florence: Giunti Editori, 2004), repr. no. 16 p. 145. |
| • | A. Zevi, Peripezie del dopoguerra nell’arte italiana (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2005), pp. 335-336, not repr. |
| • | G. Lista, Arte Povera (Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2006), p. 46, repr. no. 18. |
| • | F. Poli, La scultura del Novecento (Bari: Editori Laterza, 2006), p. 80, not repr. |
| • | G. Maffei, Arte Povera 1966-1980. Libri e documenti / Books and documents (Mantua: Corraini Edizioni, 2007), repr. p. 120 (exhibition view Venice 1970). |
| • | 30/40. A Selection of Forty Artists from Thirty Years of Exhibitions at Marian Goodman Gallery, exhibition catalogue, New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, 2007, repr. p. 91. |
| • | Ugo Mulas. La scena dell’arte, exhibition catalogue, Rome, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007), repr. p. 175 (exhibition view Venice 1970). |
| • | G. Di Genova, Storia dell’Arte Italiana del ‘900 per generazioni. Generazione Anni Quaranta, vol. 6.1 (Bologna: Edizioni Bora, 2007), p. 44, not repr. |
| • | G. Iovane, "Il museo senza muse / A Museum without muses", in Janus 23 (Brussels), January, 2008, repr. p. 60 (cited with incorrect title and date). |
| • | L. Cherubini, "Hic et nunc", in Risonanze #2. Giulio Paolini & Fabio Vacchi, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Spazio Risonanze, Auditorium Parco della Musica (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2008), p. 60, not repr. |
| • | D. Lancioni, "Giulio Paolini: percorsi in prospettiva. Note su alcune vicende romane e l’eco della sua lezione", ibid., p. 68. |
| • | Costanti del classico nell’arte del XX e XXI secolo, exhibition catalogue, Catania, Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2009), repr. p. 116. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 196 p. 209, col. repr. |
| • | Paolo Mussat Sartor Luoghi d’arte e di artisti. 1968-2008 (Zurich: JPR|Ringier, 2008), repr. n. pag. |
| • | R. Ferrario, Giulio Paolini. Un viaggio a distanza (Busto Arsizio: Nomos Edizioni, 2009), p. 57, repr. p. 56. |
| • | D. Lancioni, "Profilo biografico", in Giulio Paolini. Gli uni e gli altri. L'enigma dell'ora, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Milan: Skira editore, 2010), p. 70, not repr. |
| • | S. Ciuccio, "Fausto Melotti und der Geist der Kunst", in Fausto Melotti. Akrobat der Moderne, exhibition catalogue, Mannheim, Kunsthalle Mannheim and Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur (Düsseldorf: Richter Verlag, 2010), p. 205, repr. |
| • | G. Celant, Arte Povera, supplement to the monthly Art e Dossier 284 (Florence), January, 2012, p. 6, repr. p. 28. |
| • | E. Volpato, "Iconografie della malinconia", in Collezioni. Volume terzo: Allestimento 2011-2013, edited by D. Eccher (Turin: GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea and Umberto Allemandi & C., 2012), p. 210, not repr. |
| • | QUI arte contemporanea 1966-1977 18, October, 2012, repr. p. 31 (artist’s portrait with Giorgio de Marchis looking at Elegia). |
| • | E. Longari, "Specchi doppi e riflessi", in Anni Settanta. La rivoluzione nei linguaggi dell’arte, edited by C. Casero and E. Di Raddo (Milan: Postmedia Books, 2015), p. 111, not repr. |
| • | Ennesima. Una mostra di sette mostre sull’arte italiana, vol. Per la scrittura di un’immagine, exhibition catalogue, Milan, La Triennale di Milano (Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2017), repr. p. 77. |
| • | I. Bernardi, "Sulla soglia. Giulio Paolini e la Biennale di Venezia", in Crocevia Biennale, edited by F. Castellani and E. Charans (Milan: Scalpendi Editore, 2017), p. 238-239, repr. p. 245 (exhibition view Venice 1970). |
| • | M.G. Messina, "Strade parallele di Marisa Volpi e di Giulio Paolini, 1968-1973", in Ricerche di storia dell’arte 124 (Rome), 2018, p. 103, repr. p. 104. |
| • | F. Belloni, Giulio Paolini. Disegno geometrico, 1960. In collezione 6 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2019), p. 66, not repr. |
| • | Paolini. I Grandi illustrati del Corriere della Sera. Arte contemporanea – I protagonisti 8, edited by F. Gualdoni (Milan: RCS MediaGroup S.p.a., 2022), pp. 16, 42, 48, 52, col. repr. p. 43. |
| • | P. Repetto, “Oltre il visibile”, in Giulio Paolini. O.D.E., exhibition catalogue, Monforte d’Alba (Cuneo), Castello di Perno (Alba: Fondazione Mancini Carini, 2022), p. 39, col. repr. p. 48 no. 13. |
| • | A. Vidissoni, “Giulio Paolini e Ludwig Wittgenstein: proposte per un confronto”, in Critica d’arte 80, no. 15-16 (Lucca), July-December 2022, p. 37, not repr. |
| • | A. Soldaini, “‘Cos’altro c’è da dire?’”, in Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), pp. 34-35, col. repr. pp. 238-239 (exhibition view Milan 2003). |
| • | B. Benedetti, “Anni luce. Cronistoria di un esordio”, in Giulio Paolini. Et in Arcadia ego, exhibition catalogue, Verona, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Achille Forti (Imola: Manfredi Edizioni, 2024), p. 80, not repr. |
| • | P. Tortonese, L’occhio dell’anima. Storia di una metafora da Platone al Romanticismo (Rome: Mauvais Livres, 2024), col. repr. on cover. |
| • | S.M.S. Cammarata, “Strappare una foto. Le Cariatidi di Giulio Paolini”, in Studi di scultura. Età moderna e contemporanea 6, no. 6 (Naples), 2024, pp. 284-285, repr. p. 284. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 27/02/2025
