Souvenir (V), 1974
GPO-0264
Contact sheets, book pages and fragments of photographic reproductions affixed to a stretcher with drawing pins
80 x 100 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso, upper stretcher bar, left: "Giulio Paolini / "Souvenir", 1974"
Present whereabouts unknown
Attached to the bars of an empty stretcher are the contact sheets of the photographs that were taken while Paolini was making Vedo (la decifrazione del mio campo visivo) (GPO-0188) at the Studio Marconi in 1973, alternatively combined with pages torn from the 1972 monograph by Germano Celant (Sonnabend Press, New York), and with torn pieces of colour "souvenir-photos" of skies and landscapes.
The work ends a series of variations on the same theme which was begun in 1971 (GPO-0217, GPO-0219, GPO-0220, GPO-0221, GPO-0251).
| 1984 | Turin, Mole Antonelliana, Coerenza in coerenza. Dall’Arte Povera al 1984, 12 June - 14 October, not repr. |
| 1985 | Madrid, Palacio de Cristal, Palacio de Velázquez, Parque del Retiro, Del Arte Povera a 1985, 24 January - 7 April, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 208 (with incorrect technique), not repr. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 264 p. 275, col. repr. |
