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GPO-0025

Untitled

Tempera on reversed canvas mounted on masonite panel

60 x 40 cm

Signed and dated on the verso, upper stretcher bar, left: “Giulio Paolini 1963 1”

Private collection, Milan

On a reversed canvas applied to a masonite panel a rectangle is outlined with white tempera. The outer edge of the stretcher is left visible on all four sides.
The work is a replica, albeit slightly smaller in size, of the work that was made immediately afterwards (GPO-0024) based on the autograph numbering inscribed on the verso after the date.

1973 Ardesio, Palazzo del Comune, II¡ Incontro artistico ad Ardesio. Aspetti della ricerca estetica in Italia negli anni 60, from 22 July, repr. n. pag.
1973 Milan, Studio Marconi, Paolini: opere 1961/73, from 15 November, repr. n. pag. (rotated by 180 degrees).
1974 New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Projects: Giulio Paolini, 21 March -14 April, no catalogue.
1976 Parma, Palazzo della Pilotta, Sala delle Scuderie, Giulio Paolini, 11 March - 21 April, not repr.
2007-08 Milan, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro. La Collezione permanente, 29 September 2007 - 9 March 2008, col. repr. p. 150 (rotated by 180 degrees), catalogue entry by G. Verzotti p. 177.
H. Martin, "Giulio Paolini. L’absolu est inexplicable", in L’Art Vivant 53 (Paris), November, 1974, repr. p. 14.
T. Trini, "Paolini. Le sprigioni", in Studio Marconi 3-4 (Milan), 5 February 1976, repr. p. 5 (exhibition view New York 1974).
G. Celant, "La scultura, un’architettura non abitabile", in Rassegna 10, no. 36 (Milan), 4 December 1988, repr. no. 18 p. 24 (the captions of illustrations nos. 17 and 18 are inverted).
Piero Manzoni, exhibition catalogue, Naples, MADRE Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina (Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007), repr. p. 72.
M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 25 p. 64, col. repr.
J. Meinhardt, Giulio Paolini. Senza titolo, 196. In collezione 3 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2015), p. 58, col. repr. p. 54.
Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), repr. p. 142 (exhibition view Milan 1973).
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 16/07/2024