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2200/H, 1965
GPO-0078
Pencil and photo emulsion on canvas
125 x 90 cm
Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, upper left: “2200H / Giulio Paolini 1965”
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Acquired in 2002, inventory no. G.2002.2
The photo canvas reproduces a primed canvas propped up against several reversed canvases, on which the artist has drawn in pencil (“2200/H” quality) the outline of the same situation framed by the camera lens. The contact between the (de)sign and the blank canvas reproduced in the photograph remains in the distance.
“Photography", Paolini remarked, in retrospect, "is a virtual image, but also a certificate of authenticity, and as such it establishes its rules: taken on as a linguistic code, it forces me to respect these rules, and this is how I find myself ‘photographing it’ in turn. Hence, in 2200/H I am not an inhabitant of my studio, but rather the beholder of the photograph that portrays it, and so to speak the ‘author’ of a representation that preceded me and that I cannot but observe”.1
Strictly complementary to this tautological aspect of photography is the rhetorical figure of the mise en abîme, also experimented with in other works made in 1965, formulated here in more explicit terms, however.
1 G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2003), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 78 p. 108.
| 1965 | Turin, Galleria Notizie, Accardi, Castellani, Paolini, Pistoletto, Twombly, 28 May - 15 June, cited in the checklist of exhibited works n. pag., repr. n. pag. |
| 1966 | Milan, Galleria dell’Ariete, Giulio Paolini, from 15 April, cat. no. 1, not repr. |
| 1967 | Turin, Teatro Stabile, Sala delle Colonne, Proposte 1. Giulio Paolini, 2 March, no catalogue. |
| 1967 | Venice, Galleria del Leone, Giulio Paolini, from 7 August, cited in the checklist of exhibited works, not repr. |
| 1971 | Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall, Elf Italiener Heute, 28 February - 18 April, not repr. |
| 1973 | Milan, Studio Marconi, Paolini: opere 1961/73, from 15 November, repr. n. pag. (with incorrect title “Senza titolo”). |
| 1974 | Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, 4 aus Italien. Alfano, Di Bello, Calzolari, Paolini, 9 March • 21 April, repr. |
| 1976 | Parma, Palazzo della Pilotta, Sala delle Scuderie, Giulio Paolini, 11 March - 21 April, repr. no. 53, referred to in the text by M. Fagiolo p. 16. |
| 1977 | Mönchengladbach, Städtisches Museum, Giulio Paolini, 3 March - 11 April, repr. |
| 1977 | Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Malerei und Photographie im Dialog von 1840 bis Heute, 13 May - 24 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 401, not repr. |
| 1984 | Villeurbanne, Le Nouveau Musée, Giulio Paolini, 20 January - 18 March, vol. Images/Index, repr. p. 17. |
| 1985-86 | Montreal, Musée d’art contemporain, Giulio Paolini, 7 July - 8 September, touring to: Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, 29 November 1985 - 19 January 198, same catalogue as for the solo exhibition in Villeurbanne 1984. |
| 1986 | Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Giulio Paolini, 15 February - 30 March, same catalogue as for the solo exhibition in Villeurbanne 1984. |
| 1992-93 | Paris, Galerie Di Meo, Giulio Paolini. Œuvres de 1963 à 1978, 27 November 1992 - 30 January 1993, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 3 p. 66, repr. p. 21 and on cover. |
| 1994-95 | New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943-1968, 7 October 1994 - 22 January 1995, touring to: Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 22 April - 13 August 1995, col. repr. no. 182. |
| 2001-02 | London, Tate Modern, Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972, 31 May - 19 August, touring to: Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 13 October 2001 - 13 January 2002; no. 95 p. 357, repr. p. 276; exhibited only in London and Minneapolis. |
| 2003 | Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Contemplazione: Italienische Kunst aus der Sammlung, 6 September - 23 November, no catalogue; exhibited only until mid-October. |
| 2003 | Milan, Fondazione Prada, Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, 29 October - 18 December, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 399, repr. pp. 149, 197 (exhibition view Venice 1967). |
| 2005 | Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Giulio Paolini. Esposizione universale, 23 April - 24 June, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 1 p. 86, col. repr. n. pag. (exhibition view), referred to in texts by D. Schwarz pp. 18-19, E. Franz p. 81. |
| 2007 | Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Blühendes. Ein Blick auf die Sammlung, 26 August - 28 November, no catalogue. |
| 2009-10 | Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Gipfeltreffen der Moderne. Das Kunstmuseum Winterthur. Die Großen Sammlungen, 24 April - 23 August, touring to: Rovereto, MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, 19 September 2009 - 10 January 2010; Salzburg, Museum der Moderne, 27 February - 30 May 2010, German edition of the catalogue: cat. no. 190, repr. p. 235, referred to in the text by D. Schwarz p. 227; omitted in the Italian edition. |
| • | G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2003), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 78 p. 108. |
| • | V. Brøndal, Teoria delle preposizioni. Introduzione a una semantica razionale, edited by Amalia Ambrosini Ricca (Milan: Silva editore, 1967), repr. on cover. |
| • | G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press, 1972), pp. 44-47, repr. no. 36 p. 44; republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by Id. (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), p. 148; reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019). |
| • | M. Fagiolo, “Glossario”, in Giulio Paolini (Parma: Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976), p. 16, repr. no. 53. |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Mannheim, Mannheimer Kunstverein, 1977, commentary by P. Maenz p. 24, repr. p. 25. |
| • | A. Mammì, I. Panicelli, “Giulio Paolini. Bibliografia”, in Giulio Paolini. La Casa di Lucrezio, exhibition catalogue, Spoleto, Palazzo Rosari Spada (Casalecchio di Reno: Grafis Edizioni, 1984), p. 10, not repr.; republished in Markus Lüpertz, Giulio Paolini: figure, colonne, finestre, exhibition catalogue, Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli, 1986, p. 75, not repr. |
| • | A. Bonito Oliva, Dialoghi d’artista. Incontri con l’arte contemporanea 1970-1984 (Milan: Electa, 1984), repr. p. 222. |
| • | S. Vertone, “Non tutto qui”, in Giulio Paolini. “Tutto qui”, exhibition catalogue, Ravenna, Pinacoteca Comunale, Loggetta Lombardesca (Ravenna: Agenzia Editoriale Essegi, 1985), p. 30, repr. no. 4. |
| • | G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. p. 169. |
| • | F. Poli, “Note di lettura”, in Id., Giulio Paolini (Turin: Lindau, 1990), p. 26, not repr.; republished in Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998), p. 41. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, op. cit. (Ostfildern-Ruit: 1998), repr. p. 204. |
| • | “Dossier: Arte Povera”, in Ligeia 25-28 (Paris), October 1998 - June 1999, repr. p. 59. |
| • | 82. Jahresbericht 2002 Kunstverein Winterthur (Winterthur: Kunstverein Winterthur, 2003), pp. 10, 21, 48, repr. p. 21. |
| • | G. Lista, Arte Povera (Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2006), p. 44, repr. no. 3. |
| • | D. Schwarz, Kunstmuseum Winterthur (Zurich: Fondation BNP Paribas Suisse - Institut suisse pour l’étude de l’art, 2007), p. 96, repr. pp. 3, 96 (idem in the German and English editions). |
| • | G. Di Genova, Storia dell’Arte Italiana del ‘900 per generazioni. Generazione Anni Quaranta, vol. 6.1 (Bologna: Edizioni Bora, 2007), p. 12, not repr. |
| • | M. Bandini, M.C. Mundici, M.T. Roberto, Luciano Pistoi: “inseguo un mio disegno” (Turin: Hopefulmonster editore, 2008), repr. p. 171. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 78 p. 108, col. repr. |
| • | R. Ferrario, Giulio Paolini. Un viaggio a distanza (Busto Arsizio: Nomos Edizioni, 2009), p. 37, repr. p. 36. |
| • | F. Pola, “Media immateriali per materializzare il tutto. Fotografia e film nell'Arte Povera”, in Arte povera 2011, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2011), p. 603, not repr. |
| • | M. Dantini, “Gradus ad Parnassum. Giulio Paolini, ‘Autoritratto’, 1969”, in Palinsesti. Contemporary Italian Art On-Line Journal 1, no. 2 (Udine), 2011, pp. 2-3, 4, repr.; republished in Id., Geopolitiche dell'arte (Milan: Christian Marinotti Edizioni, 2012), pp. 94, 96, 103, repr. p. 95. |
| • | B. Yasar, “‘Hypothesis for an Exhibition’”, in “Hypothesis for an Exhibition”, exhibition catalogue, New York, Dominique Lévy Gallery, 2014, p. 32, repr. p. 33. |
| • | F. Pola, “L’immagine mediata”, in Imagine. Nuove immagini nell’arte italiana 1960-1969, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice: Marsilio Editori, 2016), p. 195, repr. p. 218. |
| • | R. Cuomo, Giulio Paolini. Lo spazio, 1967. In collezione 4 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2016), p. 20, repr. p. 18 (exhibition view Venice 1967). |
| • | Kunstmuseum Winterthur. Katalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen/5, edited by D. Schwarz (Winterthur-Düsseldorf: Kunstmuseum Winterthur and Richter Verlag, 2017), pp. 49-52, col. repr. p. 50. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), repr. pp. 116 (exhibition view Venice 1967), 149 (exhibition view Parma 1976). |
| • | F. Guzzetti, “‘Non si trattava di elaborare degli spazi astratti’: Giulio Paolini all’Ariete, 1966”, in Spazi astratti. Interferenze fra architettura e arti a Milano 1945-1970, edited by A.V. Navone, L. Tedeschi, and S. Setti (Milan: Electa, 2024), pp. 125, 128, not repr. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 28/02/2025
