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Souvenir (IV), 1971
GPO-0221
Photographic negatives affixed to coloured paper with drawing pins, stretcher
163 x 163 cm
Signed, dated, and titled on the verso, upper stretcher bar, left: “Giulio Paolini 1971 / Souvenir (IV)”
Prada Collection, Milan
The work should be hung in a tilted position (not straight).
Twelve photographic negatives are held down along the four sides of four squares made of coloured paper – red at the top and then, clockwise, blue, green, and yellow – pinned to a stretcher so that its borders and cross brace are visible.
The same theme was also formulated in three other versions in the same year (GPO-0217, GPO-0219, GPO-0220) and in two subsequent versions (GPO-0251, GPO-0264).
| • | Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), col. repr. p. 361 (erroneously dated “1972”). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 221 p. 229, col. repr. |
| • | V. Fumagalli, Sguardo e memoria. Le corrispondenze tra Giulio Paolini e “Le Cygne” di Charles Baudelaire (Rome: Fondazione Mario Luzi Editore, 2023), repr. p. 147. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 28/02/2025
