Delos, 1979
GPO-0411
Coloured pencils and collage on primed canvas
Nine parts 40 x 60 cm each, overall dimensions 125 x 185 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso of the ninth canvas, lower stretcher bar: “Giulio Paolini Delos 1979”
Private collection
From the first element at the upper left, a polychrome pattern of linear rectangles transcribes the whole of the nine canvases, each time leaving vacant the position corresponding to the position of the element involved. Gradually appearing in these empty spaces is a torn fragment of the colour reproduction of a sunset at sea, arranged according to its original position in the picture.
The work, which was made as a pendant piece to Itaca (GPO-0410) for the solo exhibition at the Bernier gallery in Athens, harkens back to the theme developed in the first version of Delos (1976, GPO-0333).
| 1979 | Athens, Galerie Jean Bernier, Giulio Paolini, 9 May - 5 June. |
| 1995 | Brussels, Artiscope, Les occasions manquées, 10 January - 30 April. |
| 1998 | Brussels, Artiscope, V.I.P.P. Very Important Poetic Pictures, 12 March - 18 April. |
| 2007 | Milan, Galleria Giò Marconi, Giulio Paolini, 4 May - 27 July. |
| 2019 | Rome, Casoli De Luca, Oro d’Italia, 13 April - 13 July, touring to: New York, Casoli De Luca, 23 October - 23 November, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 3, col. repr. no. 3. |
| • | Jean Bernier Gallery 1977-1998 (Athens: Bernier-Eliades Gallery and Agra Publications, 1998), col. repr. n. pag. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 411 p. 419, col. repr. |
