Early Dynastic (III), 1976
GPO-0324
Michelangelo marble
Four parts h 180 cm each and each with a different number of columns placed one on top of the other, overall dimensions 180 x 180 x 180 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Acquired in 1984, inventory no. KM 126.912
Four marble elements are arranged so that they are equidistant from each other, according to an oblique pattern with respect to the axes of the room. From one element to another the number of overlapping columns changes, going from one to four with a gradual reduction in their size as well – each column is equal in height to half of the column it supports – so that each of the four elements together achieves the same height.
The work constitutes the third of five variants – as indicated by the numbering in the title – made between 1971 and 1993 (GPO-0228, GPO-0257, GPO-0324, GPO-0399, GPO-0713). In 1977 a travertine version was reproduced as well (GPO-0354).
| 2013 | Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, The riches of Arte Povera. Italian avant-garde from the 1970s, 15 December 2012 - 7 April 2013, no catalogue. |
| • | Kröller-Müller. The first hundred years (Haarlem: Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1989), p. 261, cat. no. 186 p. 133, col. repr. |
| • | Sculpture in the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, edited by M. Brouwer and R. Brouns (Otterlo-Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller and Joh. Enschedé Bv, 1992), repr. p. 195, cat. no. 746 p. 194, catalogue entry p. 310 (with incorrect bibliographical indication referred to the replica executed in 1977, see GPO-0354). |
| • | Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo: Foundation Kröller-Müller-Museum, 1994), repr. p. 55 (incompletely titled “Early Dynastic”). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 324 p. 333, col. repr. |
