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Souvenir (II), 1971
GPO-0219
Photographic negatives affixed to black paper with drawing pins, stretcher
70 x 97 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso, upper stretcher bar, left: “Giulio Paolini / Souvenir (II) 1971”
Private collection, Turin
Ten photographic negatives are pinned along the four sides of a black sheet of paper – held down on a stretcher – so that they are totally undecipherable. The negatives are pinned in the manner of postcards or some other form of souvenir, stuck into a mirror frame.
The same theme was also formulated in three other variations made in the same year (GPO-0217, GPO-0220, GPO-0221) and in two subsequent versions (GPO-0251, GPO-0264).
| 2006 | Milan, Fondazione Zappettini, L’immagine in/possibile. Attorno alla fotografia negli anni settanta, 20 April - 30 June, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 10, repr. p. 54, referred to in the text by F. Tedeschi p. 7. |
| • | Giulio Paolini (Parma: Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976), repr. no. 140. |
| • | Aphoto. Fotografia come superficie, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Studio Marconi, 1977, repr. p. 67. |
| • | Del Arte Povera a 1985, exhibition catalogue, Madrid, Palacio de Cristal, Palacio de Velázquez, Parque del Retiro, 1985, repr. no. 92 p. 106. |
| • | Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), repr. p. 337. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 219 p. 228, col. repr. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 28/02/2025
