Senza titolo, 1977
GPO-0913
Untitled
Collage on primed canvas
15 x 20 cm
Signed and dated on the verso of the second canvas, lower stretcher bar: “Giulio Paolini / 1977”
Present whereabouts unknown
The antique reproduction of Quintus Lollius Alcamenes, absorbed in contemplation of a bust of his son, is torn into two parts, each of which is applied to a primed canvas of the same dimensions so that the two faces are turned towards each other.
Akin to the group of works entitled Mimesi, developed since 1975 (cf. GPO-0283), the gazes of the two subjects meet in a closed circuit, thereby questioning the visual act as such.
The same subject was formulated in two other variants from the same year, one on paper (GPC-0455), the other on canvas (GPO-0349).
Q. Lollius Alcamenes, mid-1st century AD, marble funerary relief, 25 x 33 cm, Villa Albani, Rome; reproduction from Opere di G. G. Winckelmann, prima edizione italiana completa, vol. XIII (Prato: Fratelli Giachetti, 1830-34), plate CLXV, no. 364 (“Quinto Lollio Alcamene Scultore”).
