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Les promenades d’Euclide, 1967-68
GPO-0149
Collage on paper
Nine framed parts 50 x 35 cm each, overall dimensions 50 x 330 cm
Baldassarre Collection
Nine geometric solids made of die-cut coloured card stock, each of which pressed in the middle of a sheet of drawing paper, (ironically) set in motion nine "steps" by the Greek mathematician Euclid.
The title harks back to that of a painting by René Magritte, The Promenades by Euclid (1955), implicitly alluding to the illusory optical equation represented by the Belgian painter.
Title from René Magritte, Les promenades d’Euclide, 1955, oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis.
| 1973 | Milan, Galleria Françoise Lambert, Giulio Paolini, from 7 February. |
| • | G. Dorfles, Ultime tendenze nell’arte oggi. Dall’Informale al Neo-oggettuale. Nuova edizione aggiornata e ampliata (Milan: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, 1973), pp. 133-134, not repr. (idem in the 19th edition Milan 2003). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 149 p. 170, col. repr. |
| • | I. Bernardi, Giulio Paolini. Opere su carta: un laboratorio gestuale per la percezione dell’immagine (Turin: Prinp Editore, 2017), p. 52, not repr. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 30/04/2026
