Senza titolo, 1977
GPO-0349
Untitled
Collage on primed canvas
60 x 80 cm (two parts 60 x 40 cm each)
Signed and dated on the verso of the second canvas, top: “Giulio Paolini / 1977”
Private collection, Switzerland
The fragments of some of the printer's proofs of a page from the artist’s book titled Sei illustrazioni per gli scritti sull’arte antica di Johann J. Winckelmann (1976, GPE-0030)1 are arranged on two canvases placed close together so as to form a torn image with an elliptical shape. The subject of the image – the Roman decurion intent on contemplating the bust of his son – is set en abîme via a specular doubling, integrated with an inversion of the busts of the father and the son.
1 The image is that of the etching of funerary relief reproduced at the beginning of the second part of the Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums (1764) by J.J. Winckelmann.
• Q. Lollius Alcamenes, mid-1st century AD, marble funerary relief, 25 x 33 cm, Villa Albani, Rome; reproduction from Opere di G. G. Winckelmann, prima edizione italiana completa 13 (Prato: Fratelli Giachetti, 1830-34), plate CLXV, no. 364 (“Quinto Lollio Alcamene Scultore”).
• Printer’s proofs of the print edition by Giulio Paolini, Sei illustrazioni per gli scritti sull’arte antica di Johann J. Winckelmann, 1977; cf. Impressions graphiques. L’opera grafica 1967-1992 di Giulio Paolini (Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1992), cat. no. 29.
| 2001 | Milan, Galleria Pack, Protagonisti dell’Arte Italiana 1960-1970, from 23 October. |
| • | G. Paolini, Voix off (Mâcon: Éditions W, 1986), repr. p. 39 (erroneously cited as a work on paper, with incorrect caption "Studio per ‘Mimesi’, 1975", and incorrect dimensions "50 x 70 cm"). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 349 p. 360, repr. |
