Eco, 1976
GPO-0339
Echo
Photo prints applied to wooden panel
Nine parts 30 x 45.5 cm each, overall dimensions 30 x 413.5 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso of the ninth element, right: “Giulio Paolini / Eco / 1976”
Banca Intesa Sanpaolo Collection
Acquired in 1988, inventory no. A.D-03987A-L/IS
In each of the nine views of exhibition rooms at times occupied by viewers, four smaller photographs, located in the area corresponding to the median horizontal axis, "echo" some of the details of those same images or of other rooms in the same museum.
When looking at the sequence of photomontages placed close together the row of small images framed by a white border resembles a series of paintings at the viewer's eye level; in some cases they even resemble paintings displayed in those same spaces.
The same theme was also developed in a smaller version from the same year, in which the photographic prints were framed rather than applied to the wooden panel (GPO-0341).
1 The reproductions are from the volume by M. Brawne, Il museo oggi. Architettura Restauro Ordinamento (Milan: Edizioni di Comunità, 1965).
Exhibition views from Michael Brawne, Il museo oggi. Architettura Restauro Ordinamento (Milan: Edizioni di Comunità, 1965).
| 1976 | Brescia, Banco (Galleria Massimo Minini), Giulio Paolini, 4-30 December. |
| 1988 | Moscow, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Artisti italiani contemporanei, May-June, repr. p. 74. |
| • | “Paolini Partitura (eco)”, in Studio Marconi 1 (Milan), 24 March 1977, repr. p. 30 (exhibition view Brescia 1976). |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1980, repr. pp. 52-53 (erroneously cited in the checklist of exhibited works, caption referred to the version exhibited, cfr. GPO-0341). |
| • | Arte italiana. Esperienze degli anni ’60/’80. Arte concettuale, Arte povera, Costruttività, Arte cinetica nella collezione della Banca Commerciale Italiana a Francoforte (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1992), catalogue entry by F. Gualdoni p. 54, repr. p. 55. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 339 pp. 348-349, repr. |
| • | L’arte moderna in Intesa Sanpaolo. L’ultimo novecento, edited by C. Pirovano and F. Tedeschi (Milan: Intesa Sanpaolo and Mondadori Electa, 2013), cat. no. 350, catalogue entry by F. Tedeschi p. 220, repr. p. 221. |
| • | Brera in contemporaneo. Fabro, Garutti, Kounellis, Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan: Johan & Levi editore, 2015), repr. p. 221. |
