Senza titolo (Souvenir), 1973
GPO-0251
Untitled (Souvenir)
Transparencies and aluminum foil affixed to a stretcher with drawing pins, stretcher
50 x 50 cm
Signed on the verso: “Giulio Paolini”
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Acquired in 2008, inventory no. 2008.30.57
Four almost illegible negatives are pinned to the four corners of a sheet of aluminum foil mounted on a stretcher, as though they were postcards or some other form of souvenir, stuck into a mirror frame.
The same theme was formulated in three previous variants (GPO-0217, GPO-0219, GPO-0220, GPO-0221) and in one made during the same year (GPO-0264).
2003 | New York, Esso Gallery, Lato destro. The Photographic Side of Arte Povera, 4 March - 12 April. |
• | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 251 p. 262, col. repr. |