Quadrante, 1975
GPO-0287
Quadrant
Unstretched and folded canvas applied to a stretcher, pencil on primed canvas
40 x 180 cm (three parts 40 x 60 cm each)
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso of the third canvas, lower stretcher bar, right: “Giulio Paolini / Quadrante 1975”
Private collection, Turin
Two unstretched canvases folded on their relative stretchers are placed alongside a primed canvas. On the canvas a pencil drawing repeats in a reduced version the image of these same elements, including them in a spatial frame that at the same time duplicates the outline of the stretchers.
In other words, the work serves as a "quadrant" for itself, orienting the viewer's gaze towards the perception of the work as such.
The same theme was formulated in three other variants made during the same year (GPO-0288, GPO-0289, GPO-0840).
| 1975 | Munich, Galerie Art in Progress, Giulio Paolini, 18 April - 21 May. |
| 1982 | Hamburg, Raum für neue Kunst, Giulio Paolini, 16 August - 15 October, cited in the checklist of exhibited works in the visitor’s guide, not repr., referred to in the text by M. Kramer. |
| • | G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. p. 251. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 287 p. 298, repr. |
