+ T, 1966
GPO-0099
Primed canvases
150 x 213 x 105 cm (three parts 105 x 213 cm each)
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso of canvas number 1, top: “Giulio Paolini / + T / 1966”
Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini, Turin
Gift of the artist, 25 October 2012, archive no. GPO-0099
Three triangular primed canvases mirror the three perpendicular planes forming the corner of a room, while at the same time creating the image of a volumetric image.
The work is part of the research that distinguished the artist's output in 1966. Starting from the same premise – canvases juxtaposed so that they mark the corner of a room, seen as the elementary point of origin of a space – many different optical configurations were developed, calling into play the gap between the logical assumption – the elementary and rational given – and the illogical and mutating complexity of the perception.
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 99 p. 127, repr. |
