Prologo, 1993
GPO-0910
Prologue
Pencil and red pencil on paper, collage on wall
Overall dimensions variable
Dismantled work
The photographic reproduction of a monumental staircase features at the centre, in the area corresponding to a gilded frame, a rectangular cut-out allowing the viewer to glimpse the wall behind it. The continuation of the diagonals of this empty “painting” goes beyond the limits of the image, until it merges with the sheets scattered on the wall that appear to have emerged from that blind “window”.
Expelled along the vanishing lines of the red diagonals – alluding to the squaring of Disegno geometrico (1960, GPO-0001) – the sheets are clues in the attempt, which is constantly renewed on the part of the artist, to give a face to the painting, or, rather, to question the possibility itself that it has one at all.
| 1993 | Prato, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Inside Out – Museo Città Eventi, 27 March - 16 May, cited in the checklist of exhibited works pp. 108-109, not repr. |
| • | Paolini. I Grandi illustrati del Corriere della Sera. Arte contemporanea – I protagonisti 8, edited by F. Gualdoni (Milan: RCS MediaGroup S.p.a., 2022), repr. p. 22 (during the installation of the work at Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, 1993). |
