Hierapolis, 1982
GPO-0479
Fractured plaster cast, photo prints, plexiglas sheets
Four photo prints 120 x 180 cm each, overall perimetral dimensions 250 x 370 cm
The artist had originally planned to make three editions of the work, but eventually made only two.
| 1 | Private collection |
| 2 | Dismantled work |
The fragments of plaster cast of a grooved column are scattered above and underneath four plexiglas sheets, which in a slightly staggered position hold down four photographic enlargements of a perspectival drawing of columns, placed close together on the ground so that they are slightly juxtaposed. Along the diagonals the images are specular to each other – the same negative is printed twice correctly and twice upside down; hence, the image, by dint of chasing itself, implodes.
The work harkens back to the theme of a previous version, which instead occupied an entire room (GPO-0478).
| 1984 | Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Der Traum des Orpheus. Mythologie in der italienischen Gegenwartskunst 1967 bis 1984, 16 May - 1 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 176, not repr.; edition indicated as “1” in this entry. |
| 1984 | Spoleto, Palazzo Rosari Spada, XXVII Festival dei Due Mondi, Giulio Paolini. Casa di Lucrezio, 27 June - 16 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 6 p. 30, not repr.; edition indicated as “2” in this entry. |
| • | G. Paolini in the interview with S. Taylor, “A Conversation with Giulio Paolini”, in The Print Collector’s Newsletter 15, no. 5 (New York), November-December, 1984, p. 168; republished in Italian in Giulio Paolini. La voce del pittore – Scritti e interviste 1965-1995, edited by M. Disch (Lugano: ADV Publishing House, 1995), pp. 199-200. |
| • | “Giulio Paolini. Casa di Lucrezio, 1981-1984”, in A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu 5, no. 10-11 (Rome), July, 1984, repr. p. 24 (exhibition view Spoleto 1984). |
| • | S. Taylor, “A Conversation with Giulio Paolini”, in The Print Collector’s Newsletter 15, no. 5 (New York), November-December, 1984, repr. p. 166 (exhibition view Spoleto 1984). |
| • | Belvedere dell’arte. Orizzonti, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Forte Belvedere (Milan: Skira editore, 2003), col. repr. p. 121 (with incorrect dimensions and erroneously dated “1984”). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 479 p. 491, repr. (exhibition view Spoleto 1984). |
| • | B. Satre, “Giulio Paolini, entre fragment et fragmentation”, in Influxus, online journal, 28 May 2014. |
