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Intervallo, 1985
GPO-0542
Interval
Plaster casts, white plinths
Two casts: 105 x 83 x 53 cm, 94 x 87 x 49 cm, two trapezoidal plinths 80 (h) x 98 (side to the wall) x 90 x 90 x 50 cm each, overall dimensions variable
The work was executed in a numbered edition of seven plus one artist's proof. The artist inadvertently authenticated two editions with the number 6/6, designated here as “6/6 [a]” and “6/6 [b]”.
| 1/6 | FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon |
| 2/6 | Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, Maryland |
| 3/6 | MART Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto |
| 4/6 | Goetz Collection, Munich |
| 5/6 | Private collection, Milan |
| 6/6 [a] | Private collection, Osaka |
| 6/6 [b] | The Olnick Spanu Collection, New York |
| A.P. | Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini, Turin |
| 1/6 | Acquired in 1985, inventory no. 9850068 |
| 3/6 | Acquired in 2001, inventory no. MART 670 |
| A.P. | Gift of the artist, 25 October 2012, archive no. GPO-0542 |
The two halves of the plaster cast of the torso of the Wrestlers, each of which set down on a plinth, are placed up against two opposite walls, along an oblique axis that corresponds to the force line of the plastic composition.
“Intervallo – writes the artist – is the distance that separates the two ‘moments’ in which the figure comes apart. But on close examination, the intervals are two as well. The first one, which is visible, one is made up of a short distance that separates the two halves of the same statue on two walls of the room. The second one, which is virtual or imaginary, is the entire circumference of our planet (minus the short portion visible in the room) through which the two halves could be put back together again. Could it therefore be the beginning and the end of the subject?".1
The same theme was formulated in three other variants made between 1984 and in 1986 with casts of other classical sculptures (GPO-0525, GPO-0549, GPO-0571).
1 G. Paolini in an unpublished passage of an interview with M. Belpoliti that took place in 1999, typescript held in the artist’s archive.
Wrestlers, 1st century AD Roman copy of a 3rd century BC Greek original, marble, 89 cm, Le Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence.
| 1985 | Paris, Galerie Maeght Lelong, Giulio Paolini. Melanconia ermetica, 14 May - 29 June, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 9 p. 32, not repr.; edition 1/6. |
| 1985 | Jyväskylä, Alvar Aalto-Museo, On Language and Ecstasy. A Generation in Italian Art, 12 September - 13 October, touring to: Pori, Porin Taidemuseo, 27 October - 8 December, not repr.; edition 6/6 [b]. |
| 1985 | Long Island City, New York, P.S.1 The Institute for Art and Urban Ressources, The Knot. Arte Povera at P.S.1, 6 October - 15 December, col. repr. p. 161 (exhibition view Paris 1985); edition 5/6. |
| 1986 | Dijon, FRAC Bourgogne, Première présentation d’un choix d’œuvres. Acquisitions 1984-1985, 27 January - 29 March, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 1986 | Nevers, Association pour l’art contemporain, Œuvres choisies du FRAC Bourgogne, 4-30 April, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 1986 | Berkeley, California, University Art Museum, MATRIX Gallery, Giulio Paolini, 4 October - 30 November, repr. in the exhibition brochure, text by C. Lewallen n. pag.; edition 5/6. |
| 1986 | Mâcon, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Réfectoire des Moines de l’Abbaye, Œuvres du FRAC Bourgogne, 4-30 October, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 1986 | Turin, Galleria Christian Stein, Fideliter (1966-1986), from 15 December. |
| 1987 | Chambéry, Musée Savoisien, Turin 1965-1987. De l’Arte Povera dans les collections publiques françaises, 8 March - 11 May, touring to: Lille, Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse, 13 July - 30 August; La Roche-sur-Yon, Musée Municipal, 22 September - 16 November, cat. no. 38 p. 78, col. repr. p. 36 (incorrect installation); exhibited only in Chambéry and in La Roche-sur-Yon; edition 1/6. |
| 1987 | Tours, Centre de création contemporaine, Arte Povera, 19 June - 6 September, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 1987 | Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Implosion. A postmodern perspective, 24 October 1987 - 10 January 1988, cat. no. 66 p. 221, repr. p. 118; edition 3/6. |
| 1989 | Verona, Studio La Città, Sculpttura: la scultura vista dai pittori, from 12 May, repr. pp. 36-37; edition 4/6. |
| 1989 | La Chaux de Fonds, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Choix d’œuvres de la collection du FRAC Bourgogne, 17 June - 27 August, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 1990 | Kiel, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Allegorie, from 8 May, repr. n. pag. (with exhibition view); edition 3/6. |
| 1990 | Dijon, FRAC Bourgogne, Salle des Frémis-Roussottes, Phénomènes extrêmes (regard sur une collection), 10 May - 30 June, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 1992 | Maribor (Yugoslavia), Umetnostna Galerija, 4th International Triennial Ecology and ART d’ECO, 19 June - 31 July, repr. pp. 62-63, referred to in the text by E. Francalanci p. 70; edition 4/6. |
| 1992 | Osaka, Kodama Gallery, Arte Povera, 19 October - 12 December, col. repr. pp. 080-081; edition 6/6 [a]. |
| 1993 | Toronto, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Frames: Edward Muybridge, Bill Viola, Giulio Paolini, Gary Hill, James Coleman, from 15 May, no catalogue; edition 2/6. |
| 1993 | Salzburg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Utopia. Arte italiana 1950-1993, 24 July - 31 August, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 71 p. 137, repr. p. 106; edition 4/6. |
| 1993-94 | Fréjus, Centre d’art Le Capitou, Côte à côte, 6 November 1993 - 6 March 1994, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 1995 | Cluny, Eglise Saint Marcel, Sculptures du FRAC Bourgogne, 23 July - 15 November, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 1996 | Rome, French Academy, Villa Medici, Giulio Paolini. Correspondances, 13 March - 28 April, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 13, col. repr., referred to in the text by M. Fagiolo Dell’Arco p. 30; artist’s proof. |
| 1996 | Louhans, Lycée Polyvalent Régional Henri Vincenot, Œuvres du FRAC Bourgogne, 18 November - 20 December, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 1997-00 | Bremen, Neues Museum Weserburg, Arte Povera. Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz 1958 bis heute, 22 June - 7 September, touring to: Nuremberg, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, 2 October - 7 December; Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 14 February - 26 April 1998; Vienna, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, 19 June - 30 August 1998; Göteborg (Sweden), Konsthallen, 19 September - 22 November 1998; Munich, Sammlung Goetz, 24 January - 20 May 2000 (part II), repr. p. 140, catalogue entry p. 236; edition 4/6. |
| 1998 | Annecy, L’Arteppes art contemporain, Cet art que l’on dit contemporain… troisième partie: regard sur la sculpture, l’installation et autre médiums, 16 March - 30 April, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 2000 | Châtillon-sur-Seine, Musée du Châtillonnais, Autour du temps. Œuvres de la collection du FRAC Bourgogne, 13 April - 9 October, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 2000-01 | Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bricolage? Œuvres de la Collection du Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Bourgogne, 2 December 2000 - 26 February 2001, repr. p. 297 (work not installed, details of two casts), entry by V. Goudinoux p. 296; edition 1/6. |
| 2002-03 | Rovereto, MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Le Stanze dell’Arte. Figure e immagini del XX secolo, 15 December 2002 - 13 April 2003, repr. p. 393; repr. also in the visitor’s guide Guida del percorso espositivo, n. pag.; edition 3/6. |
| 2003 | New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, A Sculpture Show, 12 February - 14 March; edition 6/6 [b]. |
| 2003-04 | Bremen, Neues Museum Weserburg, Sammlung Goetz. Arte Povera und Mike Kelley, March 2003 - January 2004, no catalogue; edition 4/6. |
| 2003 | Avignon, Palais des Papes, Esprits des lieux. Trésors publiques - 20 ans de création dans les Fonds Régionaux d’Art Contemporain, 28 June - 12 October, p. 313, repr. (work not installed, details of the two casts); edition 1/6. |
| 2004 | Joigny, Atelier Cantoisel, Le XVIII-XXI, Histoire intra-muros, 23 May - 9 October, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 2004-05 | Bolzano, Castel Masaccio, Il colore della vita. Die Farben des Lebens. Hommage à Piero Siena, 4 December 2004 - 30 January 2005, cat. no. 21 p. 139, repr. pp. 140-141; edition 3/6. |
| 2005 | Bourbon Lancy, Musée municipal, Hôtel “La Tourelle”, Nues et nus, 9 July - 30 September, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 2006 | Besançon, Galerie d’Art Contemporain de l’Hôtel de Ville, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie, 2 Temps… 3 Mouvements, 8 February - 9 March, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 2007 | Rovereto, MART Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Tableau Drapeau. Capolavori dalla Collezione permanente del MART, 19 May - 21 October, no catalogue; edition 3/6. |
| 2007-08 | Vigo, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Taking Time, 19 October 2007 - 17 February 2008, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 262, col. repr. p. 202, b/w repr. pp. 204, 206 (details), text by C. Lewallen pp. 350-351 (enlarged version of the author’s text published on the occasion of the exhibition of the work in Berkeley in 1985); edition 1/6. |
| 2009-10 | Biumo (Varese), FAI Villa e Collezione Panza, Arte Povera: energia e metamorfosi dei materiali. Opere dalle Collezioni del MART, 17 December 2009 - 28 March 2010, col. repr. p. 77 (incorrect installation), entry by D. Ferrari p. 7, catalogue entry pp. 89-90; edition 3/6. |
| 2009 | Paris, Maison populaire, Un plan simple 2/3 (scène), 29 April - 4 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. [149], col. repr. pp. 100 (details), 138-139 (exhibition view), anonymous entry p. 101; edition 1/6. |
| 2012 | Tanlay, Communs du Château, Où donc, et quand? Œuvres des FRAC Bourgogne et FRAC Franche-Comté, 16 June - 16 September, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 2012-13 | Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Arte Povera. Der grosse Aufbruch, 9 September 2012 - 3 February 2013, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 74 p. 133, repr.; edition 4/6. |
| 2016-17 | Milan, Galleria Christian Stein, Giulio Paolini. Fine, 10 November 2016 - 29 April 2017, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 154, col. repr. pp. 70-71 (exhibition view), 72, 73 (details), entry by M. Disch p. 154, referred to in the text by L. Conte pp. 29-30; exhibited at the venue in Pero; artist’s proof. |
| 2017 | New York, Hauser & Wirth, Arte Povera. Curated by Ingvild Goetz, 12 September - 28 October, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 261, col. repr. pp. 128-129 (exhibition view), 130-131, 249 (exhibition view Nuremberg 1997); edition 4/6. |
| 2021-22 | Rovereto, MART Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Canova tra innocenza e peccato, 17 December 2021 - 18 April 2022; edition 3/6. |
| 2023 | Trento, Galleria Civica di Trento, Domus contemporanea, 22 June - 26 November, col. repr. n. pag.; edition 3/6. |
| 2025-26 | Rovereto, MART Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Sport. Le sfide del corpo, 1 November 2025 - 22 March 2026; edition 3/6. |
| • | Sculptures, première approche pour un parc, exhibition catalogue, Jouy-en-Josas, Fondation Cartier, 1985, repr. p. 50 (exhibition view Paris 1985). |
| • | F. Piqué, “Christian Stein”, in Flash Art 142 (Milan), January-February, 1988, col. repr. p. 44. |
| • | G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. pp. 118-119. |
| • | Mnemosyne oder das Theater der Erinnerung, exhibition catalogue, Worms, Schloss Herrnsheim, 1988, repr. pp. 94-95. |
| • | G. Celant, Arte Povera (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1989), repr. p. 167 (exhibition view Paris 1985); French edition: Arte Povera (Villeurbanne: Art Édition, 1989), repr. p. 175. |
| • | F. Poli, Giulio Paolini (Turin: Lindau, 1990), repr. no. 116. |
| • | Neoclassico. La ragione, la memoria, una città: Trieste, edited by F. Caputo and R. Masiero (Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1990), repr. p. 24 (exhibition view 1985); complementary volume to the exhibition catalogue Neoclassico. L’attualità: arte, architettura, design, Trieste, Civico Museo Revoltella, Galleria d’Arte Moderna (Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1990). |
| • | A. Zevi, “Giulio Paolini: Le repliche del naufragio / The replicas of the shipwreck”, in L’Architettura 37, no. 433 (Rome), November, 1991, p. 907, repr. p. 909. |
| • | La collection Christian Stein. Un regard sur l’art italien (Villeurbanne: Le Nouveau Musée and Art Édition, 1992), repr. pp. 190-191, catalogue entry p. 294. |
| • | C. Patriat, Éléments d’une politique culturelle régionale en Bourgogne (Dijon: Conséil Régional de Bourgogne, 1992), repr. on cover. |
| • | Arte Povera. Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz 1958 bis heute (Munich: Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz, 1997), repr. p. 140, catalogue entry p. 236; English edition Munich 2001: repr. p. 140, catalogue entry pp. 249-250. |
| • | Compilation: une expérience de l’exposition, edited by X. Douroux, F. Gautherot and E. Troncy (Dijon: Les presses du réel, 1998), col. repr. p. 20 (exhibition view Fréjus 1993-94). |
| • | M. Unterdörfer, Die Rezeption der Antike in der Postmoderne: der Gipsabguss in der italienischen Kunst der siebziger und achtziger Jahre (Weimar: VDG Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, 1998), pp. 32, 50, 174, cat. no. 58 p. 146, repr. no. 34 p. 220 (exhibition view Rome 1996). |
| • | M. Bertoni, Tempi e forme. Una ricerca sulle arti visive contemporanee (Turin: Hopefulmonster editore, 1998), p. 206 (in general on the group of works titled Intervallo), repr. p. 203. |
| • | R. Lachat, L’Art en Italie 1945-1995 (Paris: Nouvelles éditions françaises, 1999), col. repr. p. 144. |
| • | Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Bourgogne 1984-2000 (Quétigny: FRAC Bourgogne, 2000), entry by V. Goudinoux p. 296, repr. p. 297 (work not installed, details of two casts). |
| • | E. Clausen, “La vocazione teatrale dell’opera d’arte”, in Art’o 12 (Bologna), Autumn, 2002, repr. p. 34 (exhibition view Paris 1985). |
| • | Le Stanze dell’Arte. Figure e immagini del XX secolo (Rovereto-Milan: MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto and Skira editore, 2002), repr. p. 393. |
| • | Chronos. Il tempo nell’arte dall’epoca barocca all’età contemporanea, exhibition catalogue, Caraglio, Il Filatoio (Caraglio: Edizioni Marcovaldo, 2005), repr. p. 39. |
| • | A. Zevi, Peripezie del dopoguerra nell’arte italiana (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2005), p. 365, not repr. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 542 p. 553, repr. |
| • | Paolo Mussat Sartor Luoghi d’arte e di artisti. 1968-2008 (Zurich: JPR|Ringier, 2008), repr. n. pag. (exhibition view Rome 1996). |
| • | Matrix Berkley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art, edited by E. Thomas (Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2009), repr. pp. 204-205. |
| • | Arte Povera Seen by Ingvild Goetz (New York: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2017), col. repr. pp. 128-129 (exhibition views New York 2017), 130-131, 249 (exhibition view Nuremberg 1997), caption p. 261. |
| • | A. Soldaini, G. Paolini, “In dialogo”, in Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), col. repr. p. 102 (exhibition view Rovereto 2021), b/w repr. p. 193 (exhibition view Paris 1985). |
| • | “Lo stato dell’arte. 5 domande / 3 artisti. Intervista a Giulio Paolini”, in Inside Art 19, no. 128 (Rome), July, 2023, repr. pp. 72-73 (exhibition view Paris 1985). |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 30/01/2026
