Panorama, 1996-97
GPO-0794
Frame, crumpled photographic reproduction, pencil and collage on wall
Frame 123 x 163 cm, overall dimensions variable
Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Acquired by the Amici del Museo, 2004, inventory no. A.A.C.P. 245
An antique frame hung in the middle of the wall holds the colour reproduction of a landscape. The reproduction is crumpled beneath the plexiglas sheet of the frame, while other torn fragments from the same image are spread out all around it. Moreover, from the inside of the frame to the farthest ends of the wall a pattern of rectangles of various sizes and proportions, in increasing order, is developed. The title refers to both the subject of the reproduction, and the expanding drawing which enlarges the view, thereby extending the horizon towards infinity.
| 1997 | Milan, Galleria Christian Stein, Giulio Paolini, from 27 October. |
| 1998 | Prato, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Collezione permanente, from 26 June, col. repr. p. 121 (exhibition view Milan 1997, incompletely dated “1996”). |
| 2000 | Prato, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Collezione permanente, from 6 May, no catalogue. |
| 2002 | Prato, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Nuove acquisizioni. Collezione permanente, 10 June - 8 September, not included in catalogue, viewed separately from the exhibition, in a selection of works from the collection. |
| 2003-04 | Prato, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Collezione permanente. Opere storiche, 2 November 2003 - 1 August 2004, no catalogue. |
| 2006 | Prato, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Corrispondenze. Dal presente al passato, 7 September 2006 - 7 January 2007, col. repr. p. 85 (exhibition view), anonymous entry p. 87 (incompletely dated “1996”). |
| 2008 | Prato, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Fatto bene! La collezione del Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, 19 June - 3 August, volume Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato. La Collezione (Florence-Milan: Giunti Editori, 2009): entry by S. Pezzato p. 92, col. repr. p. 93 (exhibition view of the work installed as part of the museum's collection). |
| 2016-18 | Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, Arte Contemporanea al Palazzo della Carovana. Opere del Centro Pecci di Prato alla Scuola Normale Superiore, 18 October 2016 - September 2018, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 27, col. repr. p. 9 (exhibition view), 11, entry by S. Pezzato pp. 10-11; in the catalogue of the exhibition “La fine del mondo” entry by S. Pezzato p. 115, col. repr. pp. 116-117. |
| • | Collezione permanente (Prato: Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Museo d’arte contemporanea, 1998), col. repr. p. 121 (exhibition view Milan 1997, incompletely dated “1996”). |
| • | D. Paparoni, “Giulio Paolini”, in Tema Celeste, no. 62 (Syracuse), May-June 1997, col. repr. p. 74 (exhibition view Milan 1997). |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Turin: Hopefulmonster, 1999), col. repr. p. 47 (exhibition view Milan 1997). |
| • | G. Paolini, Andata e ritorno (Milan-Ravenna: Galleria Christian Stein and Danilo Montanari Editore, 2003), col. repr. p. 31 (exhibition view Milan 1997, detail, incompletely dated “1996” on the cover). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 794 p. 812, col. repr. (exhibition view Milan 1997). |
| • | Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato. La Collezione (Prato-Florence-Milan: Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci and Giunti Editori, 2009), entry by S. Pezzato p. 92, col. repr. p. 93 (installation view at Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato). |
