Annali 1961-1976, 1977
GPO-0370
Annals 1961-1976
Pencil, red pencil and collage on paper
Sixteen framed parts 73 x 53 cm each, overall dimensions 73 x 875 cm
Jeanne and Charles Vandenhove Collection, Vandenhove Centre for Architecture and Art – Ghent University, Ghent
Gift of Charles Vandenhove, 2016
From 2007 to 2012 on loan at Bonnenfantenmuseum, Maastricht
The sixteen elements must be lined up in a horizontal row to allow for a reading of the inscription from left to right. The arrangement in a grid of 4 x 4 units reproduced in the Catalogue raisonné is not ideal; it should only be taken into consideration when there is a problem related to the amount of space available that cannot be solved.
The sequence of sixteen “annals” lined up horizontally in a row, at short intervals, and dated at the lower left from 1961 to 1976, reproduces the entirety of the characters making up the title, each time written in red pencil and in large squared letters. Moreover, the sixteen elements trace – by way of the systematic series of details included in a grid of sixteen rectangles outlined on each sheet – an image taken from a treatise on perspective, representing a figure from whose gaze wide beams of visual rays depart. From one sheet to another, a collage reveals a new detail of the image, while the ones that were already seen are gradually traced by way of a pencil drawing, until the complete transcription of the image on the last element.
Figure from Pierre Descargues, Traités de perspective (Paris: Editions du Chêne, 1976), p. 85.
| 1977 | Rome, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Giulio Paolini. Annali 1961-1976, from 18 November. |
| 1978 | Naples, Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes, Giulio Paolini, from 9 February, no cxatalogue. |
| 2013 | Deurle, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Collectie / Collection Jeanne & Charles Vandenhove, 30 June - 13 October, cited in the list of works from the Collection p. 159, not repr.; repr. in the exhibition guide, n. pag. |
| 2023 | Ghent, Vandenhove, Centre for Architecture and Art – Ghent University, DECODE: A selection from the VANDENHOVE Collection, 17 February - 25 March, no catalogue. |
| • | G. Paolini in Giulio Paolini. Atto unico in tre quadri, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Studio Marconi (Milan: Gabriele Mazzotta editore, 1979), p. 109 (note to the work published in the visitor's guide drawn up for the solo exhibition at Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes, Naples 1978). |
| • | A. Boatto, “Giulio Paolini l’occhio critico”, in Corriere della Sera, 27 November 1977, not repr. |
| • | G. Briganti, “Paolini: in sedici fogli l’allegoria di una vita”, in La Repubblica, 4 December 1977, not repr. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Atto unico in tre quadri, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Studio Marconi (Milan: Gabriele Mazzotta editore, 1979), repr. p. 109. |
| • | Identité Italienne. L’art en Italie depuis 1959, edited by G. Celant (Paris-Florence: Centre Georges Pompidou and Centro Di, 1981), p. 555, repr. |
| • | G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. p. 33. |
| • | Roma in mostra 1970 1979. Materiali per la documentazione di mostre azioni performance dibattiti, edited by D. Lancioni (Rome: Edizioni Joyce & Co., 1995), cat. no. 795 p. 114, not repr. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 370 pp. 374-375, repr. |
