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Mimesi, 1975
GPO-0283
Mimesis
Plaster casts
Two casts 48 x 23.5 x 25.5 cm each
The work was executed in a numbered edition of five plus two artist’s proofs.
Up to the present the numbering of editions 2/5, 3/5 and 5/5 has not been confirmed in any of the documents from the period when the work was made; hence, it cannot be verified.
| 1/5 | Giuliani Collection, Rome |
| 2/5 (?) | Private collection |
| 3/5 (?) | Private collection, Rome |
| 4/5 | Gerd de Vries Collection, Berlin |
| 5/5 (?) | Private collection, Milan |
| A.P. | Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini, Turin |
| A.P. | Private collection |
| A.P. | Gift of the artist, 25 October 2012, archive no. GPO-0283 From 20 July 2020 to July 2023 on loan at Segretariato generale della Presidenza della Repubblica, Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome |
The work can be installed on two plinths (120 x 35 x 35 cm each) or on a single plinth (120 x 90 x 90 cm, with the possibility of including a protective case measuring 90 x 90 x 90 cm).
When the work is installed on two plinths, the space in between them must range from a min. of 21 cm to a max. of 29 cm, while the difference between the two plinths should be equal to about 17 cm.
When a single plinth is used, the two casts should be placed in a central position, at a maximum distance from each other of 15 cm, and with a difference equal to about 12 cm.
Two plaster casts of the bust of the Hermes of Praxiteles are arranged opposite each other, just slightly staggered so that their gazes cross.
After the plaster casts used in Elegia (1969, GPO-0196) and in Proteo (1971, GPO-0225, GPO-0226, GPO-0227), Mimesi represents the first use of the cast of an ancient sculpture. The echo of an absent model and of a distant, mythical image, the cast represents a special tool used by the artist to enact the difference implicit in language, and therefore the very concept of mimesis: “The intent is to perceive – while leaving it intact – the distance that separates us from those images, but which, at the same time, makes them visible to us”.1
The exchange of gazes between the two identical figures questions the very reasons for the existence of the work and its coming in to being by way of our gaze. In the artist's own words: “When I place two identical editions of the same antique sculpture one in front of the other it is not because I want to be the artificer or the rediscoverer of those sculptures; rather, my purpose is to be the observer who perceives the distance that separates them, hence, all the chances for a relationship or the lack of one that are determined between them, and between those images and ourselves”2. “This is not a revisitation meant as a choice from the warehouse of the past; my work is more of an undifferentiated welcome, a memory that wants to draw from the very making of the work”3.
The same theme was reformulated with casts of other classical subjects in four successive variants – made during the same year (GPO-0317, GPO-0318), in 1976 (GPO-0330), and in 1988 (GPO-0620) – as well as in the form of a multiple (1975, GPE-0019).
1 G. Paolini interviewed by M. Bandini, in Tuttolibri, supplement to La Stampa (Turin), 22 June 1985; republished in Giulio Paolini. La voce del pittore – Scritti e interviste 1965-1995, edited by M. Disch (Lugano: ADV Publishing House, 1995), p. 221.
2 G. Paolini interviewed by F. Pasini, in L’Illustrazione italiana 5, no. 24 (Milan), November, 1985, p. 21; republished in Giulio Paolini. La voce del pittore, op. cit. (Lugano: 1995), p. 209.
3 G. Paolini interviewed by P. Tortonese, in Nuova società 231 (Turin), January, 1983; republished in Giulio Paolini. La voce del pittore, op. cit. (Lugano: 1995), p. 185.
Praxiteles, Hermes and the Infant Dionysos, 350-330 BC, marble, h 215 cm, Archaeological Museum, Olympia.
| 1975 | Rimini, Quartiere fieristico, Empirica: l’arte tra addizione e sottrazione, 18 May - 25 June, not repr. |
| 1975 | Rome, Galleria D'Alessandro/Ferranti, Giulio Paolini, from 11 October. |
| 1977 | New York, Sperone-Westwater-Fischer, Giulio Paolini, 15 January - 15 February. |
| 1977 | Zurich, Galerie Annemarie Verna, Giulio Paolini, 20 January - 23 February; edition 4/5. |
| 1977 | Mannheim, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Giulio Paolini, 31 July - 28 August, repr. no. VII p. 13; edition 4/5. |
| 1982 | Tokyo, Museum of Modern Art, Cento anni di arte italiana moderna 1880-1980, 14 July - 8 August, cat. no. 98, repr. |
| 1983 | Portofino, Civica Galleria d’Arte, Raccolta Silvio Castelli, [unknown dates], repr. p. 11 (erroneously dated “1964”). |
| 1984 | New York, The Museum of Modern Art, An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, 17 May - 19 August, repr. p. 239. |
| 1985 | Ravenna, Loggetta Lombardesca, Il fantasma della qualità, 1 March - 27 April, repr. p. 67. |
| 1986 | Cologne, Galerie Paul Maenz, Giulio Paolini. Giulio Paolini. Dal "Trionfo della rappresentazione" (cerimoniale: in prospettiva), 4 February - 1 March; edition 4/5. |
| 1986 | Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Giulio Paolini, 15 February - 30 March, not repr. |
| 1986-87 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli, Markus Lüpertz, Giulio Paolini: figure, colonne, finestre, 19 December 1986 - 29 March 1987, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 47 p. 117, repr. p. 126 (exhibition view); artist’s proof. |
| 1989 | Bonn, Bonner Kunstverein, 2000 Jahre. Die Gegenwart der Vergangenheit, 1 October - 26 November, not repr.; edition 4/5. |
| 1995 | Republic of San Marino, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Titanica. Simbologie del contemporaneo, 24 June - 10 September, col. repr. p. 44; artist’s proof. |
| 1997-98 | Venice, Palazzo Querini Dubois, Minimalia. Da Giacomo Balla a..., 12 June - 12 October, touring to: Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 28 January - 6 April 1998, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 146, repr. p. 149; edition 3/5 [?]. |
| 1998 | Turin, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Artecittà. 11 Artisti per il Passante Ferroviario di Torino, 19 March - 26 April, col. repr. p. 13 (exhibition view); artist’s proof. |
| 2002 | Berlin, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Private/Corporate. Werke aus der Sammlung DaimlerChrysler und aus der Sammlung Paul Maenz: Ein Dialog, 28 May - 21 July, repr. p. 43; edition 4/5. |
| 2003 | Magdeburg, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, La Poetica dell’Arte Povera, 14 September - 7 December, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 61 p. 236, repr. p. 102 (exhibition view); edition 4/5. |
| 2003 | Rome, French Academy, Villa Medici, Incontri... Dalla Collezione di Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, 26 September - 2 November, repr. p. 157, entry by F. Guida p. 270; edition 3/5 [?]. |
| 2005 | Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Giulio Paolini. Esposizione universale, 23 April - 24 June, touring to: Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 11 p. 87, col. repr. n. pag. (exhibition view), referred to in the text by D. Schwarz p. 23; artist’s proof. |
| 2006 | Bergamo, GAMeC Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Giulio Paolini. Fuori programma, 6 April - 16 July, col. repr. pp. 62-65 (exhibition views), 68; artist’s proof. |
| 2008 | Rome, Spazio Risonanze, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Risonanze # 2. Giulio Paolini & Fabio Vacchi, 9 May - 15 June, repr. p. 47, referred to in the text by D. Lancioni p. 68; artist’s proof. |
| 2008 | Carrara, Aula Magna dell’Accademia di Belle Arti, XIII Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara. Nient’altro che scultura, 27 July - 28 September, col. repr. pp. 56, 57 (exhibition views Bergamo 2006) referred to in the text by R. Ferrario pp. 53, 55; artist’s proof. |
| 2009-10 | Lugano, Museo Cantonale d’arte, Guardami. Il volto e lo sguardo nell’arte 1969-2009, 25 October 2009 - 21 February 2010, cat. no. 76, col. repr. p. 287, entry by S. Menegoi p. 148, referred to in the text by B. Della Casa pp. 43, 45; repr. in the exhibition brochure (work selected for the press release material); artist’s proof. |
| 2010 | Bergamo, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Il grande gioco. Forme d'arte in Italia 1947-1989, 24 February - 9 May, col. repr. p. 252; artist’s proof. |
| 2011-12 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Arte Povera International, 9 October 2011 - 15 April 2012, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 679 (with incorrect indication of the catalogue reproduction number) col. repr. no. 384 p. 470, referred to in the text by G. Di Pietrantonio p. 471; artist’s proof. |
| 2013-14 | Milan, La Triennale, Quarant'anni d'arte contemporanea. Massimo Minini 1973-2013, 19 November 2013 - 2 February 2014, not repr. |
| 2013-14 | Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Anni 70. Arte a Roma, 17 December 2013 - 2 March 2014, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 317, repr. p. 153 (exhibition view Rome 1975), referred to in the text by D. Lancioni p. 120; edition 1/5. |
| 2016 | Ravenna, MAR Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna, La seduzione dell’Antico, 20 February - 26 June, col. repr. p. 221; artist’s proof. |
| 2016-17 | New York, Center for Italian Modern Art, Giorgio de Chirico – Giulio Paolini / Giulio Paolini – Giorgio de Chirico, 14 October 2016 - 24 June 2017, col. repr. pp. 2, 15 (exhibition views); artist’s proof. |
| 2017 | Berlin, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Giulio Paolini. Di ritorno, 8 September - 21 October; edition 4/5. |
| 2018-19 | Milan, Fondazione Carriero, Giulio Paolini. Del bello ideale, 26 October 2018 - 10 February 2019, repr. vol. 1 p. 75 (exhibition view Rivoli 1986), col. repr. vol. 1 pp. 146-147, 148-149 (exhibition view), 170, repr. vol. 2 pp. 47, 49 (installation at the artist's home), referred to in the text by L. Skrebowski vol. 1 p. 86; artist’s proof. |
| 2020-24 | Rome, Palazzo del Quirinale, Quirinale contemporaneo, from July 2020, p. 51, col. repr. p. 53 (exhibition view); artist's proof. |
| • | G. Paolini in the interview with P. Tortonese, in Nuova società 231 (Turin), January, 1983; republished in Giulio Paolini. La voce del pittore – Scritti e interviste 1965-1995, edited by M. Disch (Lugano: ADV Publishing House, 1995), p. 185. |
| • | G. Paolini in Giulio Paolini, vol. Images/Index (Villeurbanne: Le Nouveau Musée, 1984), p. 102. |
| • | G. Paolini in the interview with M. Bandini, in Tuttolibri, supplement to La Stampa (Turin), 22 June 1985; republished in Giulio Paolini. La voce del pittore, op. cit. (Lugano: 1995), p. 221. |
| • | G. Paolini in the interview with F. Pasini, in L’Illustrazione italiana 5, no. 24 (Milan), November, 1985, p. 21 (general commentary on the group of works titled Mimesi); republished in Giulio Paolini. La voce del pittore, op. cit. (Lugano: 1995), p. 209. |
| • | G. Paolini in the interview with M. Bourel, in Art Press 164 (Paris), December 1991, p. 18; republished in Italian in Giulio Paolini. La voce del pittore, op. cit. (Lugano: 1995), p. 258. |
| • | G. Paolini, Quattro passi. Nel museo senza muse (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2006), pp. 50-51 (general commentary on the group of works titled Mimesi). |
| • | G. Paolini in the interview with C. Giraud, “Paolini & Tirelli. Faccia a faccia con l’arte”, in Artribune 3, nos. 13-14 (Rome), May-August, 2013, p. 67. |
| • | Mediterranea 1. Incontro in Sicilia. Linee di ricerca dell’arte italiana, exhibition catalogue, Messina, Fiera Campionaria Internazionale, 1975, repr. n. pag. (exhibition view Rome 1975). |
| • | T. Trini, “Paolini. Le sprigioni”, in Studio Marconi 3-4 (Milan), 5 February 1976, pp. 3-5, not repr.; republished in an enlarged version titled “Come l’immaginario si ribella all’immaginazione”, in Data 20 (Milan), March-April, 1976, pp. 88-89, repr. p. 91, and in Tommaso Trini. Mezzo secolo di arte intera. Scritti 1964-2014, edited by L. Cerizza (Milan: Johan & Levi Editore, 2016), p. 114, not repr. |
| • | M. Fagiolo, “Glossario”, in Giulio Paolini (Parma: Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976), p. 20, repr. no. 195. |
| • | A.C. Quintavalle, “Paolini: scritture”, in Giulio Paolini, ibid., p. 56. |
| • | A. Bonito Oliva, Europe America / The different avant-gardes (Milan: Deco Press, 1976), repr. p. 232. |
| • | T. Trini, “Rassegne dell’anno. Le arti visive nel 1975”, in La Biennale di Venezia. Annuario 1976. Eventi del 1975 (Venice: Archivio storico delle arti contemporanee, 1976), repr. p. 976 (caption p. 974). |
| • | F. Menna, “Doppio ritratto (alla maniera) di Paolini”, in Studio Marconi 4-5 (Milan), 20 April 1978, p. 61, not repr.; republished in Giulio Paolini. Premio Bolaffi 1980 (Turin: Giulio Bolaffi Editore, 1980), p. 29; “Kunst in Europa na ‘68”, exhibition catalogue, Ghent, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst/Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, 1980, pp. 138-139, not repr.; Giulio Paolini. “Una collezione ‘60/’80” (Milan: Studio Marconi, 1990), pp. 122-123, not repr. |
| • | D. Filippucci, “Titolo”, in Il Laboratorio 9 (Perugia), 1978, pp. 12, 33, not repr. |
| • | C. Brandi, “Ancora la fine dell’Avanguardia”, in Id., Scritti sull’arte contemporanea, vol. 2 (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1979), p. 166, not repr. |
| • | Fabro, Kounellis, Merz, Paolini. Materialien zu einer Ausstellung, exhibition catalogue, Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, 1980, repr. n. pag. (erroneously dated "1977"). |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Premio Bolaffi 1980 (Turin: Giulio Bolaffi Editore, 1980), repr. pp. 14-15 (exhibition view Zurich 1977). |
| • | “Giulio Paolini”, in Kunstforum International 39, monographic issue Italienische Kunst heute edited by M. Grüterich (Mainz), March, 1980, repr. p. 78. |
| • | Luoghi del silenzio imparziale, exhibition catalogue [In labirinto], Milan, Palazzo della Permanente (Milan: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, 1981), repr. p. 113 (exhibition view Zurich 1977). |
| • | Identité Italienne. L’art en Italie depuis 1959, edited by G. Celant (Paris-Florence: Centre Georges Pompidou and Centro Di, 1981), repr. p. 489 (exhibition view Rome 1975). |
| • | G. Di Genova, Narcissus, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Istituto Italo-Latino Americano, 1982, repr. n. pag. |
| • | E. Franz, “Del bello intelligibile – Die geistige Schönheit”, in Giulio Paolini. Del bello intelligibile, exhibition catalogue, Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld; Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum; Berlin, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein/DAAD, 1982, p. 8, not repr. (in general on the versions of Mimesi with two casts); republished in Pratiques. Réfléxions sur l’art 2 (Rennes), [November], 1996, pp. 41-42, not repr. |
| • | AD. Le più belle case del mondo 2, no. 11 (Milan), April, 1982, p. 80, col. repr. pp. 80, 150-154 and on cover (installation view at the home of Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, Rome). |
| • | G. de Marchis, “Giulio Paolini”, in Thoughts and Action. Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, Bruce MacLean, Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Tokyo, The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Laforet Museum (Tokyo: Flex Co. Ltd., 1982), p. 121, not repr. |
| • | R. De Fusco, Storia dell’arte contemporanea (Bari: Editori Laterza, 1983), repr. no. 347. |
| • | H. Friedel, “Giulio Paolini. Der doppelte Blick”, in Der Traum des Orpheus. Mythologie in der italienischen Gegenwartskunst 1967 bis 1984, exhibition catalogue, Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 1984, p. 72 (in general on the versions of Mimesi with two casts), not repr. |
| • | A. Mammì, I. Panicelli, “Giulio Paolini. Bibliografia”, in Giulio Paolini. La Casa di Lucrezio, exhibition catalogue, Spoleto, Palazzo Rosari Spada (Casalecchio di Reno: Grafis Edizioni, 1984), p. 18, not repr.; republished in Markus Lüpertz, Giulio Paolini: figure, colonne, finestre, exhibition catalogue, Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli, 1986, p. 80. |
| • | D. Soutif, “La transparence du cygne”, in Paolini. Melanconia ermetica, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Galerie Maeght Lelong, 1985, pp. 24, 26 (in general on the versions of Mimesi with two casts), not repr. |
| • | P. Tedeschi, “Roma. Una Collezione d’arte contemporanea”, in Vogue Italia, special series 13 (Milan), March, 1986, col. repr. pp. 536-537 (installation view at the home of Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, Rome |
| • | G.B. Salerno, “Nero-Kounellis, Bianco-Paolini” in Flash Art 19, no. 132 (Milan, Italian edition), April-May, 1986, repr. p. 33. |
| • | Paul Maenz Ausstellungen / Exhibitions Saison / Season 1985/86 (Cologne: Galerie Paul Maenz, 1986), repr. n. pag. (exhibition view Cologne 1986). |
| • | M. Scholz-Hänsel, “Das imaginäre Museum Giulio Paolinis”, in Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1986, vol. 2, p. 12, not repr. |
| • | J. Meinhardt, “Giulio Paolini. Diaphragma”, ibid., vol. 4, pp. 19-20 (in general on the versions of Mimesi with two casts), not repr. |
| • | H. Friedel, “Giulio Paolini. Das Gleichnis – La metafora, la parabola, l’immagine”, in Literatur im Raum, exhibition catalogue, Basel, Galerie Fina Bitterlin, 1986, n. pag. (in general on the versions of Mimesi with two casts), not repr. |
| • | F. Nanjo, “Esthetic of Criticism and Recreation”, in Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Nagoya, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1987, pp. 12-13, not repr. |
| • | L. Parmesani, “Anacronismo, Ipermanierismo, Nuova Maniera”, in F. Alfano Miglietti, Arte in Italia 1960-1985 (Milan: Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1988), repr. p. 187. |
| • | A. Monferini, “Paolini e l’arte concettuale”, in Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (Milan-Rome: Mondadori and De Luca Edizioni d'Arte, 1988), p. 8 (in general on the versions of Mimesi with two casts), not repr. |
| • | F. Poli, “Note di lettura”, in Id., Giulio Paolini (Turin: Lindau, 1990), pp. 31, 39, repr. no. 89; republished in Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998), pp. 51, 63, 65. |
| • | Neoclassico. La ragione, la memoria, una città: Trieste, edited by F. Caputo and R. Masiero (Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1990), repr. on cover and on back cover; complementary volume to the exhibition catalogue Neoclassico. L’attualità: arte, architettura, design, Trieste, Civico Museo Revoltella, Galleria d’Arte Moderna (Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1990). |
| • | Mind and Cognition. A Reader, edited by W.G. Lycan (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990), repr. on cover. |
| • | Paul Maenz Köln 1970-1980-1990. Eine Avantgarde-Galerie und die Kunst unserer Zeit / An Avant-Garde Gallery and the Art of Our Time, edited by G. de Vries (Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 1991), repr. p. 204 (detail and exhibition view Cologne 1986). |
| • | Raccolta d’arte di Silvio Castelli ([Milan]: n.d.), repr. p. 11 (erroneously dated “1964”). |
| • | Storia moderna dell’arte in Italia. Manifesti, polemiche, documenti, vol. 3: II. Tra Neorealismo ed anni Novanta 1945-1990, edited by P. Barocchi (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1992), repr. no. 103 (exhibition view Rome 1975). |
| • | L.V. Masini, Dizionario del fare arte contemporaneo (Florence: Sansoni Editore, 1992), p. 277, repr. |
| • | F. Poli, “Giulio Paolini”, in Giulio Paolini al Palazzo della Ragione, exhibition catalogue, Padua, Salone del Palazzo della Ragione (Milan: Fabbri Editori, 1995), pp. 32-33 (in general on the versions of Mimesi with two casts), not repr. |
| • | Roma in mostra 1970 1979. Materiali per la documentazione di mostre azioni performance dibattiti, edited by D. Lancioni (Rome: Edizioni Joyce & Co., 1995), p. 16, cat. no. 539 p. 89, repr. no. 10 p. 79 (exhibition view Rome 1975). |
| • | M. Fagiolo Dell’Arco, “Giulio Paolini, ‘Villa Medici 1331996’”, in Giulio Paolini. Correspondances, exhibition catalogue, Rome, French Academy, Villa Medici (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1996), pp. 36, 38, repr. p. 37. |
| • | C. Bertola, “Il quadro che contiene tutti i quadri”, in Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998), p. 105, not repr. |
| • | H. Friedel, “Mitologie nell'arte contemporanea italiana e tedesca”, in L’ombra degli Dei. Mito Greco e Arte Contemporanea, exhibition catalogue, Bagheria (Palermo), Civica Galleria “Renato Guttuso”, Villa Cattolica (Naples: Electa, 1998), p. 77, not repr. |
| • | Adieu, exhibition catalogue, Viterbo, Ex Chiesa di San Giovanni degli Almadiani, 1998, repr. p. 26 (exhibition view Rome 1975). |
| • | M. Unterdörfer, Die Rezeption der Antike in der Postmoderne: der Gipsabguss in der italienischen Kunst der siebziger und achtziger Jahre (Weimar: VDG Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, 1998), pp. 32, 49, 111-112, 171, cat. no. 28 p. 140, not repr. |
| • | S. Bann, “Giulio Paolini”, in Rewriting Conceptual Art, edited by M. Newman, J. Bird (London: Reaktion Books, 1999), pp. 182-183 (in general on the versions of Mimesi with two casts), not repr. |
| • | Italia 2000. Arte e sistema dell’Arte, edited by A. Bonito Oliva, Madrid, ARCO (Milan: Giampaolo Prearo Editore, 2000), repr. p. 63 (exhibition view Rome 1975). |
| • | Gian Enzo Sperone. Torino Roma New York 35 anni di mostre tra Europa e America, vol. 2 (Turin: Hopefulmonster editore, 2000), p. 282, repr. |
| • | L.V. Masini, L’arte del Novecento. Dall’Espressionismo al Multimediale, vol. 11: L’Arte come idea (Florence-Rome: Giunti and Gruppo Editoriale Espresso, 2003), p. 546, repr. no. 2778 p. 545. |
| • | M. Bettini, E. Pellizer, Il mito di Narciso. Immagini e racconti dalla Grecia a oggi (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2003), p. 214, col. repr. no. 21. |
| • | Giuseppe Gallo. Percorso Amoroso. Sculture 1986-2004, exhibition catalogue, Spoleto, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna (Rome: Spin Editore, 2004), repr. p. 92. |
| • | R. De Fusco, Il piacere dell’arte (Bari: Editori Laterza, 2004), p. 64, repr. p. 65. |
| • | E. Franz, “Giulio Paolini. ‘Esposizione universale’. Ein Klassiker der italienischen Avantgarde”, in Vernissage Nord 11 (Heidelberg), November, 2005, p. 100, repr. |
| • | A. Zevi, Peripezie del dopoguerra nell’arte italiana (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2005), pp. 364-365, not repr. |
| • | R. Buono, “Giulio Paolini e Stefano Di Stasio, e altre ipotesi di lettura del ‘doppio’ nell’Arte Contemporanea”, in Il doppio, edited by R. Aragona (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2006), p. 166, not repr. |
| • | La contemporaneità dell’arte. XII Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, exhibition catalogue, Carrara, Museo della Scultura, ex convento di San Francesco (Modena: Edizioni Logos, 2006), col. repr. p. 241. |
| • | G. Di Genova, Storia dell’Arte Italiana del ‘900 per generazioni. Generazione Anni Quaranta, vol. 6.1 (Bologna: Edizioni Bora, 2007), p. 16, repr. no. 7 p. 15 (erroneously titled “Mimesis”). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 283 pp. 294-295, b/w repr. (exhibition view Rivoli 1986) and col. repr. |
| • | Costanti del classico nell’arte del XX e XXI secolo, exhibition view, Catania, Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2009), col. repr. p. 122 (exhibition view Rome 2008). |
| • | R. Ferrario, Giulio Paolini. Un viaggio a distanza (Busto Arsizio: Nomos Edizioni, 2009), p. 76, repr. p. 77. |
| • | Il giornale della Promuseo 5 (Lugano), 2009, repr. on cover. |
| • | Elogio della semplicità, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Fondazione Stelline (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2010), repr. p. 85. |
| • | G. Di Pietrantonio, “Non si è mai soli”, in Flash Art 43, no. 283 (Milan, Italian edition), May, 2010, p. 34, repr. |
| • | S. Sutcliffe, The Art of Vintage. An aesthetic odyssey through 20 vintage Perrier-Jou‘t champagnes (London: Jacqui Small, 2010), col. repr. p. 283 (exhibition view Rome 2008). |
| • | J.P. Vernant, L'immagine e il suo doppio. Dall'era dell'idolo all'alba dell'arte (Milan-Udine: Mimesis Edizioni, 2010), col. repr. on cover. |
| • | R. De Fusco, Storia dell'arte contemporanea (Bari: Editori Laterza, 2010), repr. no. 247. |
| • | F. Fabbri, Il buono il brutto il passivo. Le tecniche dell'arte contemporanea (Milan: Mondadori, 2011), repr. no. 1 n. pag. |
| • | F. Borrelli et al., Nuovi disagi della civiltà (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2013), col. repr. on cover. |
| • | 1957/2010. Un percorso nella storia della Biennale di Scultura di Carrara, exhibition catalogue, Carrara, Accademia di Belle Arti e Centro Arti Plastiche, 2013, col. repr. n. pag. (exhibition view Carrara 2008). |
| • | E. Longari, “Specchi doppi e riflessi”, in Anni Settanta. La rivoluzione nei linguaggi dell’arte, edited by C. Casero and E. Di Raddo (Milan: Postmedia Books, 2015), p. 111, repr. |
| • | S. Bann, “Apoteosi di Omero. Da Paolini a Ingres”, in S. Bann et al., Il passato al presente. In tema 2 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2016), p. 128, col. repr. p. 134. |
| • | I. Bernardi, Giulio Paolini. Opere su carta: un laboratorio gestuale per la percezione dell’immagine (Turin: Prinp Editore, 2017), pp. 100-101, 111, 112, 113, col. repr. p. 101. |
| • | F. Belloni, Giulio Paolini. Disegno geometrico, 1960. In collezione 6 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2019), p. 26, not repr. |
| • | Quirinale contemporaneo 2020 (Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2020), p. 51, col. repr. p. 52 (exhibition view Rome 2020). |
| • | L. Madaro, “Ordine e rigore nell’archivio di Giulio Paolini”, in Arte 574 (Milan), June, 2021, col. repr. p. 79. |
| • | Paolini. I Grandi illustrati del Corriere della Sera. Arte contemporanea – I protagonisti 8, edited by F. Gualdoni (Milan: RCS MediaGroup S.p.a., 2022), p. 48, col. repr. p. 49 and on cover. |
| • | D. Viva, “I primi anni: 1974-1977”, in Archivio Ugo Ferranti. Roma 1974-1985, exhibition catalogue, Rome, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Rome: Quodlibet Edizioni, 2022), p. 58, repr. p. 29 (exhibition view Rome 1975). |
| • | Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), repr. pp. 144 (exhibition view Rome 1975), 185-185 (exhibition view Charleroi 1986), col. repr. pp. 247 (exhibition view Bergamo 2006), 286-287 (exhibition view Milan 2018). |
| • | A. Paolucci, “Verso la globalizzazione dell’arte”, in Oltre la pittura. Dagli anni Cinquanta a oggi, vol. 12 (Florence: Giunti Editore, 2023), p. 22, col. repr. |
| • | L. Bidoli, La lieta mimesi (Cervignano del Friuli [Udine]: Kamadoska, 2023), col. repr. n. pag. and on cover. |
| • | L. Canova, “Negli abissi del tempo. Giulio Paolini e Giorgio de Chirico”, in Metafisica. Quaderni della Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico 22-23 (Imola: Maretti Editore, 2023), pp. 120, 123, col. repr. no. 11 p. 122. |
| • | Arte Povera. Dialoghi / Dialogues, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Tornabuoni Arte (Florence: Forma Edizioni, 2024), col. repr. p. 182. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 27/02/2025
