Doppia verità, 1995
GPO-0749
Double Truth
Plaster casts, plexiglas cases with reflecting side, white plinth
Two plexiglas cases 50 x 50 x 50 cm each, plinth 110 x 110 x 60 cm, overall dimensions 160 x 110 x 60 cm
Fondazione CAMUSAC, Cassino
Two plexiglas cases placed close together on a plinth – the sides that touch mirror each other – hold the two halves of a divided plaster cast of the head of the Athena Lemnia, arranged up close to the reflecting side.
Seen from the front the two casts generate an incongruous head, while from the side each half appears to be integrated by the double of itself in the mirror. In the chimerical game of vis-à-vis, each correspondence, however realistic, is illusory, since the "truth" is doubled and divided, generating a deceitful game of gazes that suspends the vision of an integral unit.
The same theme was also developed in four other variants, made between 1995 and 1996, with the casts of other heads, arranged according to variable opposites (GPO-0748, GPO-0750, GPO-0751, GPO-0772).
Athena Lemnia, Roman copy of the 5th century BC bronze original by Phidias, marble, Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna.
| 2013 | Cassino, CAMUSAC, Opere dalla Collezione permanente/1, from 12 October. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 749 p. 763, col. repr. |
| • | Arte Contemporanea a Cassino, edited by B. Corà (Cassino: Edizioni Università di Cassino, 2012), col. repr. p. 47. |
