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1/25, 1965
GPO-0080
Photo emulsion on canvas
130 x 95.5 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso, upper left: "Giulio Paolini / 1/25 1965"
Margherita Stein Collection. Property Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, on loan to Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin
Acquired by Fondazione CRT in 2001, inventory no. C-PAOG-005
A male figure (the artist in disguise), photographed by Francesco Aschieri in via Lagrange, Turin, carries a canvas that is only visible from the back. The angle of the photograph leaves the author practically anonymous, nor does it allow us to know whether the canvas is still blank, or a finished painting, by him or by others. “The author carries what will be or was the image of a painting”,1 according to the artist, in retrospect.
The title refers to the exposure time used by the photographer to take the photo still.
Together with the use of photography, the introduction of the figure of the artist and of his relationship with the work is the main theme in Paolini's 1965 output. "Photography", the artist explained in 1972, "lets me dilate the language all the way to including in my exploration the gestures and figure of the artist".2
1 G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2002), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 80 p. 110.
2 G. Paolini in G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press, 1972), p. 52 (revised translation, republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant [Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003], p. 148), reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019), p. 52.
| 1965 (?) | Turin, Galleria Notizie, Giulio Paolini, from 11 November, repr. (detail). |
| 1967 | Venice, Galleria del Leone, Giulio Paolini, from 7 August, cited in the checklist of exhibited works, not repr. |
| 1971 | Turin, Galleria Christian Stein, Giulio Paolini, Jannis Kounellis, July. |
| 1972 | Turin, Galleria Christian Stein, Christian Stein 1966-72, from 10 November. |
| 1989 | Milan, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Verso l’Arte Povera. Momenti e aspetti degli anni Sessanta in Italia, 20 January - 27 March, touring to: Lyon, ELAC Espace Lyonnais d’Art Contemporain, 24 June - 5 September, not repr |
| 1992-93 | .Villeurbanne, Le Nouveau Musée, La collection Christian Stein. Un regard sur l’art italien, 24 June - 31 October, touring to: Tolouse, CRAC Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrénées, Labège-Innopole, 19 January - 28 March 1993, cited in the checklist of exhibited works and repr. p. 171, catalogue entry pp. 286-287 (with a mistake in the list of exhibitions). |
| 1995 | Graz, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Quasi per gioco. Das Spiel in der Kunst. Steirischer Herbst ’95 TRIGON, 1 September - 22 October, repr. p. 74. |
| 1997-98 | Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Arte italiana 1945-1995. Il visibile e l’invisibile, 14 November 1997 - 15 January 1998, touring to: Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1 February - 22 March 1998; Tottori, Yonago City Museum of Art, 23 April - 26 May 1998; Hiroshima, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 15 June - 26 July 1998, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 27 p. 146, repr. p. 65. |
| 2000-01 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Arte povera in collezione, 6 December 2000 - 25 March 2001, catalogue entry by M. Disch p. 202, repr. p. 203. |
| 2002 | Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Arte Povera: Art from Italy 1967-2002, 23 August - 11 November, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 138, repr. p. 6, referred to in the text by C. Christov-Bakargiev p. 16. |
| 2003 | Milan, Fondazione Prada, Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, 29 October - 18 December, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 399, repr. p. 147. |
| 2004 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Nuove acquisizioni CRT, 25 May - 27 June, no catalogue. |
| 2005 | Toyota, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Arte Povera, 19 March - 12 June, cat. no. 35 p. 233, repr. p. 131. |
| 2008-09 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Una stanza tutta per sé, 2 April 2008 - 18 January 2009, no catalogue. |
| 2009 | Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, I giovani che visitano le nostre rovine non vi vedono che uno stile, 18 June - 30 August, in the brochure with checklist of exhibited works: cited and repr. no. 6; in the catalogue: not repr., referred to in the text by FormContent p. 17. |
| 2010-11 | Valencia, IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Colección Christian Stein. Una historia del arte italiano, 7 October 2010 - 23 January 2011, touring to: Lugano, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, 12 March - 15 May, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 347, repr. no. 41 p. 160. |
| 2011-12 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Arte Povera International, 9 October 2011 - 19 February 2012, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 678, repr. no. 240 p. 319, referred to in the text by F. Pola p. 603. |
| 2015 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, exhibited in room 16, from 28 October, as part of the installation of the Collection. |
| 2018 | Saint Petersburg, Hermitage, Arte Povera. A Creative Revolution,17 May - 16 August, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 30 p. 116, col. repr. no. 30 p. 79. |
| 2024 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Expanded With, 2 May - 25 August, no catalogue. |
| 2024-25 | Paris, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Arte Povera, 9 October 2024 - 20 January 2025, col. repr. no. 5 p. 245, catalogue entry by S.M.S. Cammarata p. 244. |
| 2025 | Madrid, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Giulio Paolini e Luca Bertolo. Dietro l’opera, 8 March - 10 May, col. repr. p. 40 and on cover, entry by E. Volpato p. 62, referred to in the text by E. Volpato p. 25. |
| • | G. Paolini in G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press, 1972), pp. 47-48; republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), p. 148; reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019). |
| • | G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2002), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 80 p. 110. |
| • | G. Paolini in the interview with M. Maloberti, “Giulio Paolini. Miramare”, in Flash Art 49, no. 329 (Milan, Italian edition), October-November, 2016, p. 56. |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Turin, Galleria Notizie, 1965, repr. (detail). |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Werke und Schriften 1960- 1980 (Lucerne: Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1981), repr. n. pag. |
| • | Identité Italienne. L’art en Italie depuis 1959, edited by G. Celant (Paris-Florence: Centre Georges Pompidou and Centro Di, 1981), repr. p. 241. |
| • | F. Poli, Giulio Paolini (Turin: Lindau, 1990), repr. no. 63. |
| • | La collection Christian Stein. Un regard sur l’art italien (Villeurbanne, Le Nouveau Musée and Art Édition, 1992), repr. p. 171, catalogue entry pp. 286-287 (with incorrect list of exhibitions). |
| • | M. Bouisset, Arte Povera (Paris: Éditions du Regard, 1994), repr. p. 54. |
| • | C. Bertola, “Il quadro che contiene tutti i quadri”, 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. 101, not repr. |
| • | Arte povera in collezione (Rivoli-Milan: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Edizioni Charta, 2000), catalogue entry by M. Disch p. 202, col. repr. p. 203. |
| • | Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. La Residenza Sabauda – La Collezione, edited by I. Gianelli and M. Beccaria (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 2003), commentary by G. Verzotti p. 286, repr. p. 287. |
| • | A. Zevi, Peripezie del dopoguerra nell’arte italiana (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2005), p. 289, not repr. |
| • | G. Di Genova, Storia dell’Arte Italiana del ‘900 per generazioni. Generazione Anni Quaranta, vol. 6.1 (Bologna: Edizioni Bora, 2007), p. 12, not repr. |
| • | Time & Place: Milano-Torino 1958-1968, exhibition catalogue, Göttingen, Moderna Museet (Göttingen: Steidl Verlag, 2008), repr. p. 24. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 80 p. 110, repr. |
| • | Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. La Residenza Sabauda – La Collezione (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), p. 406, col. repr. pp. 409, 416-417 (exhibition view Rivoli 2008). |
| • | Dieci anni di acquisizioni per la GAM di Torino 1998-2008, edited by P.G. Castagnoli and E. Volpato (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 2008), catalogue entry by V. D’Urso pp. 511-512, col. repr. cat. no. 85. |
| • | L. Conte, Materia, corpo, azione. Ricerche artistiche processuali tra Europa e Stati Uniti 1966-1970 (Rome-Milan: MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo and Mondadori Electa, 2010), p. 75, not repr. |
| • | Collezione Christian Stein. Una storia dell'arte italiana / A History of Italian Art (Valencia-Lugano-Milan: IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Museo Cantonale d'Arte and Mondadori Electa, 2010), repr. pp. 98 (exhibition view Villeurbanne 1992), 160. |
| • | Dieci anni e oltre. La collezione della Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT per Torino e il Piemonte, edited by M. Beccaria and E. Volpato (Berlin: Archive Books, 2010), p. 362, repr. p. 363. |
| • | Arte Povera in Moscow. Works from the collection of the Castello di Rivoli, exhibition catalogue, Moscow, Multimedia Art Museum, 2011, col. repr. pp. 14-15 (exhibition view Rivoli 2000-01). |
| • | “Hypothesis for an Exhibition”, exhibition catalogue, New York, Dominique Lévy Gallery, 2014, repr. p. 116. |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Rome, MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma and London, Whitechapel Gallery (Rome: Quodlibet Edizioni, 2014), referred to in the texts by G. Guercio p. 62, I. Bernardi p. 91, repr. p. 52. |
| • | F. Pola, “L’immagine mediata”, in Imagine. Nuove immagini nell’arte italiana 1960-1969, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice: Marsilio Editori, 2016), pp. 193, 195, repr. p. 186. |
| • | D. Viva, “La storia in abisso. Letteratura, fotografia e passato”, in S. Bann et al., Il passato al presente. In tema 2 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2016), pp. 60, 62, repr. p. 63. |
| • | M. Maloberti, “Giulio Paolini. Miramare”, in Flash Art 49, no. 329 (Milan, Italian edition), October-November, 2016, p. 56, repr. p. 54. |
| • | A. Cortellessa, "Un appuntamento mancato", in Giulio Paolini / Giorgio de Chirico, edited by Id. (Turin: Nino Aragno editore, 2019), pp. 59-60, repr. p. 60. |
| • | Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. La storia e le collezioni, edited by C. Christov-Bakargiev and M. Beccaria, Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 2023), vol. II, p. 818 (referred to in the text by M. Beccaria), col. repr. p. 824. |
| • | G. Paolini, Eccomi. Qui dove sono (Turin: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini, 2025), col. repr. p. 99 (exhibition view Paris 2024). |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 21/04/2026
