Dove, 1967-85
GPO-0547
Where
Plexiglas shapes
Four parts 100 x 100 x 1 cm each, overall dimensions variable
The work was executed in a numbered edition of three.
| 1/3 | FER Collection |
| 2/3 | Neue Galerie Graz, Graz |
| 3/3 | Collection of the artist |
| 2/3 | Acquired in 1998, inventory no. III/634, 1-4 |
The work made up of four plexiglas elements shaped like the letters “D”, “O”, “V”, “E”, and realized for the open-air exhibition at Parc Lullin in Geneva, featured a different installation curated by the artist for each new presentation.
In Geneva Paolini propped each letter up against a tree, along a circular path.
In 1986 in Stuttgart, he distributed the four letters in a circle along the perimeter of the museum Rotonda, with the "D" and "O" inside a window, and the "V" and "E" set down on the ground, half-hidden among the leaves of a green plant bed.
In 1990 in Bologna he related the four elements to the same number of chairs arranged in a circle and in part turned upside down on the ground.
In 1998 in Graz he distributed them at random inside a crowded and intricate group of other works, while in Siena that same year he propped the four elements up against a window sill, turned upside down and stuck inside each other.
In 2007 in Rovereto the artist instead arranged the letters so that they corresponded to the four corners of the exhibition space, along with Qui (GPO-0546), in a central position on the ground, and Lo spazio (GPO-0120), mounted on the four walls of the room.
The work constitutes a larger replica of the first version made in 1967 (GPO-0116), which was restricted to the installation of the letters on the ground, in a circle, so that the word DOVE [Where] is legible at a glance.
| 1985 | Geneva, Centre d'art contemporain, Parc Lullin, Promenades, 9 June - 8 September, not repr. |
| 1986 | Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Giulio Paolini, 20 September - 2 November, repr. vol. 3 on back cover (exhibition view, to the right inside the windows). |
| 1990 | Bologna, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Villa delle Rose, Giulio Paolini. Hotel de l’Univers, 27 May - 29 July, no. 8 p. 17, repr. p. 41 (exhibition view). |
| 1995 | Graz, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Quasi per gioco. Das Spiel in der Kunst. Steirischer Herbst ’95 TRIGON, 1 September - 22 October; repr. p. 72 (exhibition view Bologna 1990), referred to in the text by A. Vettese pp. 29-30 (German), 164 (Italian). |
| 1998 | Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum, Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, 4 April - 31 May, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 2 p. 181, repr. p. 260 (exhibition view Bologna 1990); edition 2/3. |
| 1998-99 | Siena, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Itinere. 1, 21 November 1998 - 30 January 1999, repr. in the exhibition guide n. pag. (exhibition view, in the image on top the work is visible to the left); edition 3/3. |
| 2003-04 | Graz, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Support. Die Neue Galerie als Sammlung, 20 September 2003 - 29 August 2004, no catalogue (work not installed by the artist); edition 2/3. |
| 2007-08 | Rovereto, MART Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, La parola nell’arte. Ricerche d’avanguardia nel ‘900. Dal Futurismo ad oggi attraverso le collezioni del Mart, 10 November 2007 - 6 April 2008, repr. p. 464 (exhibition view Bologna 1990); edition 3/3. |
| 2008 | Graz, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Viaggio in Italia. Italienische Kunst 1960 bis 1990 aus der Sammlung der Neuen Galerie Graz und der VAF-Stiftung, Frankfurt am Main, 14 June 2008 - 25 January 2009, col. repr. p. 116 (work not installed by the artist), in the exhibition brochure: exhibition view; edition 2/3. |
| • | B. Corà, “Ho visto. Immagini da ‘Ouverture’ Torino 1984, ‘Promenades’ Genève 1985”, in A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu 4, no. 14-15 (Rome), December, 1985, repr. p. 113 (exhibition view Geneva 1985). |
| • | B. Corà, “Christian Stein”, in Galeries Magazine 42 (Paris), April-May, 1991, col. repr. p. 115 (installation view at the gallery-cum-house of Christian Stein, Turin). |
| • | D. von Drathen, “Giulio Paolini. Der blinde Blick des Sehers”, in Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst 33, no. 7 (Munich: Weltkunst-Bruckmann Verlag, 1996), p. 6, col. repr. p. 5 (installation view at the gallery-cum-house of Christian Stein, Turin); republished in D. von Drathen, Vortex of silence. Proposition for an art criticism beyond aesthetic categories (Milan: Edizioni Charta, 2004), pp. 223-224. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Turin: Hopefulmonster, 1999), col. repr. pp. 96-97 (exhibition view Graz 1998). |
| • | G. Paolini, Quattro passi. Nel museo senza muse (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2006), plate no. X (exhibition view Graz 1998). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 547 p. 557, repr. (exhibition view Bologna 1990). |
| • | Moderne: Selbstmord der Kunst?, edited by P. Weibel (Graz-Ostfildern: Neue Galerie and Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011), col. repr. p. 531 (installation view at Neue Galerie, Graz). |
| • | Vado al massimo. Cronache dall’Italia postmoderna, exhibition catalogue, Bologna, Galleria Enrico Astuni (Imola: Maretti Editore, 2020), repr. p. 101 (exhibition view Bologna 1990). |
| • | Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), repr. p. 210 (exhibition view Bologna 1990), col. repr. p. 227 (exhibition view Graz 1998). |
