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Sei per uno, 1998
GPO-0822
Six for One
Primed canvas mounted on reversed canvas, pencil on reversed canvas and on wall
Reversed canvas 160 x 160 cm, overall dimensions 160 x 520 cm
Private collection, Milan
Inside the cross-pieces of the stretcher of an overturned canvas is a smaller canvas, turned so that it is viewed from the recto. It appears to be symmetrically doubled by the two side squares of the same size, outlined in part on the overturned canvas and in part on the wall.
Like the previous variants made in 1994 and titled Due per uno, Tre per uno, and Quattro per uno (cf. GPO-0740, GPO-0741, GPO-0745), Sei per uno also presents the components of a sort of game of permutations preceding the fulfillment of a painting.
| 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), repr. p. 65 (in the exhibition view Brescia 1998 the frieze drawn on the wall above and below the work is part of Novero, GPO-0825). |
| • | 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. 822 p. 843, col. repr. |
| • | 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). |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 30/04/2026
