Con-fine, 1966
GPO-0102
Limit
Primed canvases
232 x 184 x 82 cm (five elements 120 x 150 cm each)
Titled, signed, and dated on the verso of the canvas placed on the floor, lower stretcher bar: “CON-FINE Giulio Paolini 1966”
Private collection
Six primed triangular canvases follow one another in the corner of a room, starting from the triangle placed on the ground, thus forming a pentagonal figure. The repetition and multiplication of the same "module" according to a rotatory and centripetal dynamic generates a figure that is closed within itself, as suggested by the title (“Limit”).
The work is part of the research that distinguished the artist's output in 1966. Starting from the same premise – canvases juxtaposed so that they mark the corner of a room, seen as the elementary point of origin of a space – many different optical configurations were developed, calling into play the gap between the logical assumption – the elementary and rational given – and the illogical and mutating complexity of the perception.
| 1967 | Turin, Galleria Christian Stein, Giulio Paolini, from 8 November. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 102 p. 130, repr. |
