To L. F., 1967
GPO-0143
Photo emulsion on canvas
40 x 40 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso, centre: “Giulio Paolini / To L. F. / 1967”
Present whereabouts unknown
The work dedicated to Luciano Fabro shows Paolini while he looks at the fold-out catalogue of Fabro's solo show at the Galleria Notizie in Turin in January 1967, where the artist is portrayed in various positions inside his work entitled In cubo.
Instead of looking at one of his own works, as he does in D867 (GPO-0141), here Paolini looks at the image of another artist, Fabro, as he relates to his work.
During the same year, the photograph led to two versions on paper, both of them smaller in size (GPC-0111, GPC-0112).
• Portrait of Giulio Paolini in his studio taken by Anna Piva, 1967.
• Opere di Luciano Fabro, exhibition catalogue, Turin, Galleria Notizie, from 20 January 1967.
| 1968 | Rome, QUI Arte Contemporanea, Fabro, Kounellis, Paolini, from 24 April, cited in the checklist of exhibited works, not repr. |
| 1971 | Turin, Galleria Christian Stein, Giulio Paolini, Jannis Kounellis, July. |
| • | Giulio Paolini (Parma: Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976), repr. no. 84. |
| • | G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. p. 222. |
| • | Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), repr. p. 189. |
| • | L’immagine del vuoto. Una linea di ricerca nell’arte in Italia 1958-2006, exhibition catalogue, Lugano, Museo Cantonale d’Arte (Milan: Skira editore, 2006), repr. p. 140. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira, 2008), cat. no. 143 p. 163, repr. |
| • | R. Ferrario, Giulio Paolini. Un viaggio a distanza (Busto Arsizio: Nomos Edizioni, 2009), p. 61, repr. p. 60. |
| • | Che fare? Arte povera – Die historischen Jahre, exhibition catalogue, Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2010), repr. p. 193 (idem in the English edition). |
| • | 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. p. 259. |
| • | C. Zambianchi, "‘Oltre l’oggetto’: qualche considerazione su Arte Povera e performance", in Ricerche di storia dell’arte 114 (Rome), 2015, p. 41, repr.; republished in French in Arte Povera. Monument, contre-monument et histoire, edited by C. Palermo (Paris: Éditions Mimésis, 2023), p. 161, repr. no. 3). |
| • | R. Cuomo, Giulio Paolini. Lo spazio, 1967. In collezione 4 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2016), p. 58, repr. |
| • | M.G. Messina, "Strade parallele di Marisa Volpi e di Giulio Paolini, 1968-1973", in Ricerche di storia dell’arte 124 (Rome), 2018, p. 101, repr. |
| • | L. Iamurri, Giulio Paolini. Teresa nella parte di Giovanna d’Arco in prigione (tavola ottica), 1969. In collezione 5 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2018), repr. p. 31. |
| • | Entrare nell’opera. Processes and Performative Attitudes in Arte Povera, exhibition catalogue, Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2019), repr. p. 87. |
| • | Renverser ses yeux. Autour de l’arte povera 1960-1975: photographie, film, vidéo, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Jeu de Paume and LE BAL (Paris: Atelier EXB, 2022), repr. p. 127. |
| • | F. Belloni, “L’immagine dell’artista”, in 0424. I vent’anni della Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini, edited by B. Della Casa (Turin: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini, 2025), p. 20, not repr. |
