Orbiter, 1998
GPO-0798
Collage on canvas, pencil on canvas and on wall
Canvas 40 x 40 cm, overall dimensions 80 x 80 cm
Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, on the right of the stretcher bar: “Orbiter” / Giulio Paolini 1998”
Paolo Consolandi Collection, Milan
The canvas in a tilted position, which "orbits" from one blank sheet of drawing paper towards two squares drawn on the wall – the smaller one partially continues onto the canvas – evokes a movement that the photographic hand attempts to stop.
The title harkens back to the noun that in the system of space transportation designates the shuttle orbiting the Earth. The slipping and rotation of one support or element on the other, associated with the motif of the hand, allude to the search for a completed work or a definite image.
| 1998-99 | Brescia, Galleria Massimo Minini, Giulio Paolini. Big Bang, 2 December 1998 - 30 January 1999. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Turin: Hopefulmonster, 1999), col. repr. p. 64 (erroneously dated “1997”). |
| • | Il critico come curatore, edited by M. Bortolotti (Milan: Silvana Editoriale – Artshow Edizioni, 2003), col. repr. pp. 112-113 (exhibition view Brescia 1998). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 798 p. 817, col. repr. (erroneously dated “1997”) |
| • | Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), col. repr. pp. 232-233 (exhibition view Brescia 1998). |
