Belvedere, 1990
GPO-0665
Crystal sphere, transparent acetate sheet, photographic reproduction
9.5 x 69 x 9.5 cm
Present whereabouts unknown
The cut-out image of the Sleeping Hermaphrodite (3rd c. AD) is inserted in the outer roll of a sheet of transparent acetate rolled in the manner of a scroll around a crystal ball, so that the figure seems to be focused on contemplating the ball.
This work is the first in a group of works with the same title, made between 1990 and 1996, whose common denominator is a figure located in either an elevated or a central position – in a "belvedere", as the title suggests – and correlated with one or more astral spheres, understood to be the symbolic model of incomparable perfection (cf. GPO-0666, GPO-0667, GPO-0679, GPO-0698, GPO-0700, GPO-0714, GPO-0715, GPO-0776).
Sleeping Hermaphrodite, 2nd century BC, marble, h 148 cm, Museo nazionale di Palazzo Massimo, Rome.
| 1990 | Bologna, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Villa delle Rose, Giulio Paolini. Hotel de l’Univers, 27 May - 29 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 23 p. 17, repr. pp. 73, 79, 81, 83 (exhibition views). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 665 p. 680, repr. |
