Album (II), 2006
GPO-0940
Pencil and collage on paper
Four framed parts 42 x 42 cm each, overall dimensions 85.5 x 85.5 cm
Private collection
Four elements placed at short intervals produce the perspective drawing of a table, with an open sketchbook in the middle, emerging from which are photographic fragments of the reproductions of autograph writings that are dispersed all around.
In between the blank pages of the sketchbook and the torn fragments, the announcement of a work is overturned in its unfufillment: on the worktable, the wait for an unknown image that the author renews from one work to another is consumed in the ascertainment of its inevitable disintegration the moment it seems to manifest itself.
The work is part of a series of four homonymous works made that same year, distinguished by the progressive numbering in the title and the growing number of framed elements (GPO-0939, GPO-0940, GPO-0941, GPO-0942).
| 2006-07 | Paris, Galerie Yvon Lambert, L’autore sconosciuto (The Unknown Artist – L’auteur inconnu). Giulio Paolini, 14 December 2006 - 27 January 2007. |
| 2009 | Brussels, La Centrale électrique, Centre d’art contemporain de la Ville de Bruxelles, Nothing is permanent. Albert Baronian, profession: galeriste, 19 June - 27 September, not repr. |
| • | R. Shama, “Le silence avant la création”, in Icôn 10 (Lausanne), Summer, 2007, col. repr. p. 101. |
