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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.
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 28/02/2025