Allée des Philosophes, 1981
GPO-0446
Stretcher, unstretched primed canvas, photographic reproduction, pencil and red pencil on wall
Stretcher 200 x 130 cm
Dismantled work
A crumpled canvas on the floor and the relative stretcher propped up against the wall are the clues of the painting evoked in pencil on the wall. The cone of vision drawn in red pencil, whose vertex is in the torn photograph pinned to the wall and representing the drawing of an ancient face cut off at the eye level, gives back to the gaze its own attempt to "see" that painting.
The title harkens back to the name of the two tree-lined avenues surrounding the French garden of the park of the Castle of Chantilly.
Image of the face from Opere di G. G. Winckelmann, prima edizione italiana completa, vol. XIII (Prato: Fratelli Giachetti, 1830-34), plate XXV, no. 62 (“Fronte di un Ercole”).
| 1981 | Cologne, Galerie Paul Maenz, Giulio Paolini, 30 June - 1 August. |
| • | W.M. Faust, “Et quid amabo: Notizen zu Arbeiten von Giulio Paolini”, in Giulio Paolini. Del bello intelligibile, exhibition catalogue, Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1982, p. 22, repr. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 446 p. 456, repr. |
