Perspective, 1975
GPO-0309
Collage on printed reproductions
Ten framed parts 24.5 x 35 cm each, overall dimensions variable
Beba and Massimo Martino Collection
The installation of the work is not restricted by any predetermined arrangement: depending on the characteristics of the room, the individual elements can be placed at short intervals from each other so that they produce a grid of 5 x 2 or 2 x 5 units, or freely distributed on one or more walls.
The collage work involving fragments of reproductions, some of which coloured, on the ten images from the collection of perspectival constructions by Jan Vredeman de Vries, entitled Perspective (1604-05), accentuates the scenographic dimension and the artifice of the representation.
Jan Vredeman de Vries, Perspective (Leiden-The Hague: Beuckel Nieulandt for Hendrick Hondius, 1604-05); reproductions from Jan Vredeman de Vries, Perspective (New York: Dover Publications, 1968), n. pag.
| 1999-00 | Lausanne, Musée de l’Elysée, Le corps évanoui: les images subites, 19 November 1999 - 23 January 2000, col. repr. p. 161 (detail, erroneously cited as “Senza titolo, 1971”). |
| • | Nuovasocietà 67 (Turin), November 1975, repr. on cover and pp. 26-30, 36-42 (nine elements, on cover and on p. 26 oriented vertically). |
| • | Giulio Paolini (Parma: Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976), repr. no. 189 (nine elements). |
| • | Com’è bella la città (Turin: Stampatori Editore, 1977), repr. on cover (one element). |
| • | I. Tomassoni, “Giulio Paolini”, in Flash Art. 94-95 (Milan, Italian edition), January-February, 1980, col. repr. p. 5 (one element). |
| • | G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. pp. 84-85 (eight elements). |
| • | G. Paolini, La verità in quattro righe e novantacinque voci, edited by S. Risaliti (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1996), repr. of one element as a faded background image to the entry for “Mondo”, pp. 132-133. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Early Dynastic, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Studio d’Arte Contemporanea Pino Casagrande (Milan: Skira editore, 2001), repr. p. 28 (one element). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 309 p. 318, col. repr. |
