Segni particolari, 1998
GPO-0821
Particular Signs
Pencil on primed canvas, primed canvases
Sixteen parts 40 x 40 cm each, overall dimensions 200 x 200 cm
SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen
Sixteen primed canvases, nine of which viewed from the recto and seven from the verso, make up the pieces of a mosaic in fieri, which the figure drawn on some of the canvases seems to be intent on putting together.
The “particular signs”– mentioned in the title – are the symbolic characteristics that distinguish the protagonist: the person wearing ceremonial dress, intent on setting up the canvases, is the typical stand-in for the author, repeatedly staged by Paolini, in search of “his” painting, or, as the artist says, “in the attempt to adhere to his own work”.1
1 G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2007), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 821 p. 842.
| 1998-99 | Brescia, Galleria Massimo Minini, Giulio Paolini. Big Bang, 2 December 1998 - 30 January 1999. |
| 2013 | Sindelfingen, Schauwerk, Incontri. Zeitgenössische italienische Kunst, 20 October 2013 - 14 September 2014, not repr. |
| • | Il critico come curatore, edited by M. Bortolotti (Cinisello Balsamo-Milan: Silvana Editoriale and 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. 821 p. 842, col. repr. |
| • | Schauwerk Sindelfingen. 100 Künstler / Artists – 100 Werke / Works – 100 Positionen / Positions (Sindelfingen-Cologne: Schauwerk Sindelfingen, The Schaufler Foundation and DuMont Buchverlag, 2010), entry by S. Dählow p. 76, col. repr. p. 77 (installation view at Schaufler Collection). |
| • | M. Disch, “Postfazione”, in B. Satre, Giulio Paolini. Essere o non essere, 1994-95. In collezione 1 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2014), pp. 67, 69, col. repr. p. 64 (exhibition view Brescia 1998). |
| • | 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). |
