Due misure, una proporzione, 1987

The work was conceived, along with Ipotesi per una mostra, 1987 (GPO-0593) for a group exhibition curated by Bernard Guelton at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Reims which invited the artists participating in the event to produce an intervention in dialogue with the works in the museum's permanent collection.
For his intervention Paolini chose Honoré Daumier’s Le Peintre (L’artiste) (1867), representing a painter intent on painting in his studio. On a large panel he projected a reproduction of the painting so that the figure appeared to be life-size, while on the easel before it and located inside the beam of light from the projector he placed the original painting so that the shadow cast by the real painting and easel coincided with the canvas on the easel in the projected image. As the title tells us, the work intersects two distinct measures, that of the painting and that of the projection, alluding to a single proportion: to the relationship between the model and its representation, the original and the copy.