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Senza titolo, 1963
GPO-0026
Untitled
Tempera on unprimed canvas and on reversed canvas
40 x 80 cm (two parts 40 x 40 cm each)
Signed and dated on the verso of the first canvas, upper stretcher bar, left: “Giulio Paolini / 1963”
Private collection, courtesy Fondazione Marconi, Milan
Two canvases placed one beside the other, one seen from the recto and the other from the verso, both feature the same square painted with white tempera, leaving the unprimed edge of the support surface visible.
In the artist's words: “The canvas as subject is visible in its double [...]. It’s like verifying the surface, appropriating it and repeating the process with the back of the picture, as if the supports on which the two squares rest were one and the same”.1
1 G. Paolini in G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press, 1972), p. 28 (revised translation, republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant [Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003], p. 104), reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019), p. 28.
| 1975-76 | Messina, Fiera Campionaria Internazionale, Mediterranea 1. Incontro in Sicilia. Linee di ricerca dell’arte italiana, 19 December 1975 - 18 January 1976, not repr. |
| 1976 | Parma, Palazzo della Pilotta, Sala delle Scuderie, Giulio Paolini, 11 March - 21 April, repr. no. 20. |
| 1976 | Milan, Galleria Blu, L’arte e il suo doppio. Balla, Picabia, Man Ray, Melotti, Dorazio, Paolini, from 15 November, repr. |
| 1977 | Mönchengladbach, Städtisches Museum, Giulio Paolini, 3 March - 11 April, repr. |
| 1977 | Mannheim, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Giulio Paolini, 31 July - 28 August, not repr. |
| 1977-78 | Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Schijnbare tegenstellingen. Zestien Italiaanse Kunstenaars, 10 December 1977 - 15 January 1978, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 45 p. 36, not repr. |
| 1990 | Milan, Studio Marconi, Italiana ’60, May, col. repr. pp. 56-57. |
| 1996 | Milan, Galleria Giò Marconi, Marconi Anni 60, 20 June - 22 September, col. repr. p. 38. |
| 2001-02 | London, Tate Modern, Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972, 31 May - 19 August, touring to: Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 13 October 2001 - 13 January 2002; Los Angeles, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, 28 April - 22 September 2002; Washington D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 23 October 2002 - 12 January 2003, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 92 p. 357, col. repr. p. 274; exhibited only in London. |
| 2003 | Milan, Fondazione Prada, Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, 29 October - 18 December, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 397, col. repr. p. 55. |
| 2007 | Naples, MADRE Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Piero Manzoni, 20 May - 24 September, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 348 p. 392, col. repr. p. 309. |
| 2008-09 | Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Time & Place: Milano-Torino 1958-1968, 1 May - 7 September, touring to Kunshtaus Zürich, Zurich (titled Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro / Milano-Torino / Los Angeles 1956-1969), 13 February - 3 May 2009, Stockholm catalogue: cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 169, col. repr. p. 85; Zurich catalogue: cited in the list of exhibited works p. 308, col. repr. p. 181. |
| 2010 | Turin, Sala Bolaffi, Torino sperimentale 1959-1969. Una storia della cronaca: il sistema delle arti come avanguardia, 19 February - 9 May, col. repr. pp. 36-37. |
| 2011 | Rome, Fondazione Roma Museo, Palazzo Cipolla, Gli irripetibili anni '60. Un dialogo tra Roma e Milano, 10 May - 31 July, col. repr. p. 61. |
| 2013 | Asti, Palazzo Mazzetti, Palazzo Ottolenghi and Palazzo Alfieri, La Rinascita, 21 June - 3 November, col. repr. p. 80. |
| 2018-19 | Milan, Fondazione Carriero, Giulio Paolini. Del bello ideale, 26 October 2018 - 10 February 2019, col. repr. vol. 1 pp. 134-135, 136-137 (exhibition views), 154, referred to in the text by L. Skrebowski vol. 1 pp. 83-84. |
| • | G. Paolini in G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press, 1972), p. 25; republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), p. 104; reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019). |
| • | G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press, 1972), p. 25, repr. no. 13 p. 27 (erroneously dated "1962"); republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by Id. (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), p. 104; reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019). |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1980, repr. p. 13. |
| • | Arte italiana 1960-1982, exhibition catalogue, London, Hayward Gallery, 1982, repr. p. 173. |
| • | Giulio Paolini, vol. Images/Index (Villeurbanne: Le Nouveau Musée, 1984), repr. p. 12 (exhibition view Parma 1976). |
| • | G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. p. 14 (exhibition view Parma 1976). |
| • | F. Poli, "Note di lettura", in Id., Giulio Paolini (Turin: Lindau, 1990), p. 25, not repr.; republished in Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998), p. 39. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. ‘Una collezione ’60/’80’ (Milan: Studio Marconi, 1990), col. repr. pp. 24-25. |
| • | F. Poli, "Giulio Paolini", in Giulio Paolini al Palazzo della Ragione, exhibition catalogue, Padua, Salone del Palazzo della Ragione (Milan: Fabbri Editori, 1995), p. 30, not repr. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, op. cit. (Ostfildern-Ruit: 1998), col. repr. pp. 20, 196. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 26 p. 65, col. repr. |
| • | Torino sperimentale 1959-1969. Una storia della cronaca: il sistema delle arti come avanguardia, edited by L.M. Barbero (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 2010), col. repr. p. 411. |
| • | F. Belloni, "Un'idea di pittura. Astrazione analitica in Italia, 1972-76", in Un'idea di pittura. Astrazione analitica in Italia, 1972-1976, exhibition catalogue, Udine, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, 2015, col. repr. p. 28. |
| • | J. Meinhardt, Giulio Paolini. Senza titolo, 1961. In collezione 3 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2015), p. 56, col. repr. p. 51. |
| • | F. Pola, "L’immagine mediata", in Imagine. Nuove immagini nell’arte italiana 1960-1969, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice: Marsilio Editori, 2016), col. repr. p. 218. |
| • | I. Bernardi, "Giulio Paolini 1963. Un autore (ancora) sconosciuto", in Arte italiana 1960-1964. Identità culturale, confronti internazionali, modelli americani, edited by F. Fergonzi and F. Tedeschi, proceedings of the study day promoted by Museo del Novecento and Gallerie d’Italia, Milan, 25 October 2013 (Milan: Scalpendi Editore, 2017), p. 41, repr. no. 2 p. 42. |
| • | Nascita di una Nazione. Tra Guttuso, Fontana e Schifano, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi (Venice: Marsilio Editori, 2018), col. repr. p. 76. |
| • | L. Madaro, “Ordine e rigore nell’archivio di Giulio Paolini”, in Arte 574 (Milan), June, 2021, col. repr. pp. 80-81. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 16/07/2024
