Storia dell’eternità, 1969
GPO-0178
A History of Eternity
Book pages affixed to primed canvas with white drawing pins mounted on plywood panel
18.5 x 24 cm (two parts 18.5 x 12 cm each)
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso of the first panel, top: “Giulio Paolini / Storia dell’eternità / 1969”
Baldassarre Collection
The two pages that precede the title-page of an Italian edition of A History of Eternity (1936) by Jorge Luis Borges are pinned to two primed canvases of the same size, placed side by side in the manner of an open book.
The same theme was formulated in two other variants, one during the same year (GPO-0179) and the other in 1971 (GPO-0230); for those works the title-pages were taken from other books.
Jorge Luis Borges, Storia dell’eternità (Milan: Il Saggiatore, 1962).
| 1969 | Venice, Galleria del Leone, Giulio Paolini, from 3 September. |
| • | Le Stanze, exhibition catalogue, Genazzano, Castello Colonna (Florence: Centro Di, 1979), repr. n. pag. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 178 p. 195, repr. |
