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D867, 1967
GPO-0141
Photo emulsion on canvas
80 x 90 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso, upper left: “Giulio Paolini / D867 / 1967”
Private collection
From 28 November 1996 to 8 November 2000 on loan at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporana, Rivoli-Turin
By exploiting the process known as mise en abîme, D867 doubles the subject of the work Diaframma 8 executed two years earlier, in 1965 (GPO-0081): Paolini returns to the motif of Diaframma 8 and has Anna Piva take a picture of him in Corso Re Umberto, near where his studio was located at the time, while carrying that same work. The title is a combination of the initials of the 1965 painting and the year this variant was made.
On the one hand, the doubling emphasizes the theme in question: the gesture of carrying a "blind" canvas, which alludes to the author himself and to his relationship with the painting. On the other, the duplication does away with the temporal distance between the two photographs: the gesture from 1965 is the same as the one in 1967, the repetition could continue ad infinitum.
Portrait of Giulio Paolini taken by Anna Piva, Turin, 1967.
| 1968 | Turin, Galleria Notizie, Giulio Paolini, 10 April - 2 May, cited in the checklist of exhibited works, repr. |
| 1970 | Lucerne, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Processi di pensiero visualizzati. Junge italienische Avantgarde, 31 May - 5 July, repr. (reproduced as the artist’s portrait; the monographic pages dedicated to each artist are all introduced by a portrait). |
| 1971 (?) | Munich, Kunstverein München, Arte Povera: 13 italienische Künstler. Dokumentation und neue Werke, 26 May - 27 June, repr. n. pag. |
| 1973-74 | Rome, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Contemporanea, 30 November 1973 - 28 February 1974, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. p. 146, repr. p. 147. |
| 1974 | New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Projects: Giulio Paolini, 21 March - 14 April, no catalogue; exhibition copy on paper. |
| 1976 | Parma, Palazzo della Pilotta, Sala delle Scuderie, Giulio Paolini, 11 March - 21 April, repr. no. 79, referred to in the texts by M. Fagiolo p. 23, A.C. Quintavalle p. 55; exhibition copy on paper. |
| 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, repr. no. 880 p. 367. |
| 1978 | Bologna, Galleria de’ Foscherari, Le figure del tempo, 18 March - 31 May, repr. n. pag. |
| 1984 | Villeurbanne, Le Nouveau Musée, Giulio Paolini, 20 January - 18 March, vol. Images/Index, repr. p. 27. |
| 1985-86 | Montreal, Musée d’art contemporain, Giulio Paolini, 7 July - 8 September, touring to: Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, 29 November 1985 - 19 January 1986, same catalogue as for the solo exhibition in Villeurbanne 1984, repr. in the brochure published in Vancouver. |
| 1986 | Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Giulio Paolini, 15 February - 30 March, same catalogue as for the solo exhibition in Villeurbanne 1984. |
| 1988 | Alba, Palazzo delle Mostre e dei Congressi, Corpo a corpo contro la storia dell’arte, 1-31 May, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 90, repr. p. 62. |
| 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, repr. no. 221. |
| 1998 | Modena, 1968-1998: Fotografia e arte in Italia, Palazzo Santa Margherita, 20 September 1998 - 10 January 1999, repr. p. 43. |
| 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; Los Angeles, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, 28 April - 22 September 2002; Washington D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 23 October 2002 - 12 January 2003, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 99 p. 358, repr. p. 279; exhibited only in London, Minneapolis and Los Angeles. |
| 2007 | Bologna, MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Vertigo. Il secolo di arte off-media dal Futurismo al web, 6 May - 4 November, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 423 p. 452, repr. p. 347. |
| 2010 | Mexico City, MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Ergo, materia. Arte povera, 24 June - 31 October 2010, repr. p. 128. |
| 2014 | London, Whitechapel Gallery, Giulio Paolini. To Be or Not to Be, 9 July - 14 September 2014, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 155, repr. p. 109, catalogue entry by M. Disch p. 108, referred to in the text by I. Bernardi p. 91. London, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, Poor Art / Arte Povera. |
| 2017 | Italian Influences, British Responses, 20 September - 17 December, col. repr. p. 43. |
| 2022-23 | Paris, Jeu de Paume and LE BAL, Renverser ses yeux. Autour de l’arte povera 1960-1975: photographie, film, vidéo, 11 October 2022 - 29 January 2023, touring to: Milan, Triennale Milano, 17 May - 3 September, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 393, repr. p. 133, referred to in the text by G. Sergio p. 331; in the booklet published on the occasion of the exhibition in Milan: col. col. repr. p. 23 (exhibition view). |
| • | G. Paolini in the interview with M. Maloberti, "Giulio Paolini. Miramare", in Flash Art 49, no. 329 (Milan, Italian edition), October-November, 2016, p. 56. |
| • | L. Vergine, "Torino ’68: nevrosi e sublimazione", in Metro 14 (Venice), June, 1968, p. 140, repr. p. 143; republished in Id., L’arte in gioco (Milan: Garzanti Editore, 1988), p. 20, not repr. |
| • | T. Catalano, "Giulio Paolini 1960-1968: il sillogismo dell’immagine", in Flash Art 12 (Rome), [October], 1969, repr. n. pag. |
| • | G. Brizio, "Giulio Paolini ovvero ‘quam raptim ad sublimia’", in Graphicus 52, no. 10 (Turin), October, 1971, pp. 36-37, repr. p. 37. |
| • | G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press, 1972), p. 54, repr. no. 50 p. 53; republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by Id. (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), p. 188; reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019). |
| • | T. Trini, "Giulio Paolini", in Art press 4 (Paris), May-June, 1973, p. 15, repr. p. 14. |
| • | M. Volpi Orlandini, "L’artista dell’avanguardia che piace allo storico dell’arte", in Bolaffiarte 4, no. 31 (Turin), June-July, 1973, p. 85, repr. p. 86; republished in Giulio Paolini (Parma: Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976), pp. 84-85. |
| • | T. Trini, "Giulio Paolini, un decennio. Parte prima", in Data 3, no. 7-8 (Milan), Summer, 1973, repr. p. 62. |
| • | G. Celant, "Image of the Image", in Art and Artists 9, no. 98 (London), May, 1974, p. 16, repr.; republished in Id., Senza titolo 1974 (Rome: Bulzoni, 1976), p. 260, repr. no. 144. |
| • | R. Barilli, La ripetizione differente, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Studio Marconi, 1974, n. pag., not repr. |
| • | I. Calvino, "La squadratura", in G. Paolini, Idem (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1975), p. X, repr. p. 27; republished in Semiotiche della pittura. I classici. Le ricerche, edited by L. Corrain (Rome: Meltemi editore, 2004), p. 230, not repr.; new edition (Milan: Electa, 2023), p. 12, repr. p. 53. |
| • | G. Celant, Precronistoria 1966-1969 (Florence: Centro Di, 1976), repr. p. 70; idem in the reprint (Macerata: Quodlibet, 2017). |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Mannheim, Mannheimer Kunstverein, 1977, commentary by P. Maenz p. 26, repr. p. 27. |
| • | Kunstforum International 39, monographic issue Italienische Kunst heute edited by M. Grüterich (Mainz), March, 1980, repr. p. 75. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Premio Bolaffi 1980 (Turin: Giulio Bolaffi Editore, 1980), repr. p. 8 (exhibition view New York 1974). |
| • | S. Dorna, C’è l’arte non liscia (Turin: Martano Editore, 1981), repr. no. 19 (cropped on three sides). |
| • | 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, repr. p. 12; republished in Markus Lüpertz, Giulio Paolini: figure, colonne, finestre, exhibition catalogue, Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli, 1986, p. 76, not repr. |
| • | J.L. Maubant, "Giulio Paolini ou le triomphe de la mélancolie", in Paolini. Melanconia ermetica, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Galerie Maeght Lelong, 1985, pp. 4-5, not repr. |
| • | S. Vertone, "Non tutto qui", in Giulio Paolini. "Tutto qui", exhibition catalogue, Ravenna, Pinacoteca Comunale, Loggetta Lombardesca (Ravenna: Agenzia Editoriale Essegi, 1985), pp. 30, 33, repr. no. II p. 32. |
| • | G. Celant, Arte Povera. Storie e protagonisti / Art Povera. Histories and protagonists (Milan: Electa, 1985), repr. p. 139; idem in the reprint included in G. Celant, Arte Povera. Storia e storie (Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2011). |
| • | Arte e Vita dell’Arte. Dalla Creatività al Linguaggio, edited by I. Tomassoni (Milan: Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1986), repr. on cover. |
| • | G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. p. 25. |
| • | F. Poli, Giulio Paolini (Turin: Lindau, 1990), repr. no. 13. |
| • | G. de Marchis, Scusi ma è arte questa? Guida illustrata all’avanguardia e alla neoavanguardia (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1991), p. 277, not repr. |
| • | D. Semin, Arte Povera (Paris: Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, 1992), p. 42, not repr.; republished in 2016, p. 55, not repr. |
| • | Italiana. From Arte Povera to Transavanguardia, exhibition catalogue, Yokohama, Nicaf 3 (Milan: Fondazione Mudima Edizioni, 1994), repr. p. 197. |
| • | M. Bouisset, Arte Povera (Paris: Éditions du Regard, 1994), p. 54, not repr. |
| • | R. Deidier, "La lingua della visione: Calvino e Giulio Paolini", in Id., Le forme del tempo. Saggio su Italo Calvino (Milan: Guerini Studio, 1995), p. 157, repr. no. 9; republished in Id., Le forme del tempo. Miti, fiabe, immagini di Italo Calvino (Palermo: Sellerio editore, 2004), p. 134, repr. no. 9. |
| • | Album Calvino, edited by L. Baranelli and E. Ferrero (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1995); in the reprint (Milan: 2003), repr. no. 223. |
| • | M. Fagiolo Dell’Arco, "Giulio Paolini, ‘Villa Medici 1331996’", in Giulio Paolini. Correspondances, exhibition catalogue, Rome, French Academy, Villa Medici (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1996), p. 40, repr. p. 39. |
| • | A. Coulange, "La conversion universelle des choses en images", in Id., Giulio Paolini. Carnets de la commande publique (Paris: Éditions du Regard, 1997), p. 21, repr. p. 20; republished in Id., L’œil indiscret (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2003), p. 143, not repr. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998), repr. p. 219. |
| • | P.G. Castagnoli, "Qui e altrove", in Giulio Paolini. Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Turin: Hopefulmonster, 1999), p. 15, repr. p. 16. |
| • | C. Christov-Bakargiev, Arte Povera (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1999), p. 133, repr. |
| • | Arte all’arte. IV edizione: 1999, exhibition catalogue, San Gimignano, Arte Continua, 1999, repr. p. 195. |
| • | M. Dalla Bernardina, "Les autoportraits de Giulio Paolini", in Ligeia 29-32 (Paris), October 1999 - June 2000, p. 6, not repr. |
| • | A. Madesani, "Camere in prestito: breve percorso della fotografia utilizzata dagli artisti italiani nel corso degli anni Settanta", in Rubare l’immagine. Gli artisti e la fotografia negli anni ’70, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Spazio Labs (Milan: Edizioni Tega, 2000), p. 9, not repr. |
| • | À travers le miroir de Bonnard à Buren, exhibition catalogue, Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 2000, p. 280, repr. p. 281, erroneously cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 341. |
| • | Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, op. cit. (Milan: 2003), repr. p. 145. |
| • | Autobiografia di una galleria. Lo Studio Marconi 1965/1992 (Milan: Skira editore, 2004), repr. p. XXI. |
| • | A. Zevi, Peripezie del dopoguerra nell’arte italiana (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2005), pp. 289, 336, not repr. |
| • | M. Bandini, M.C. Mundici, M.T. Roberto, Luciano Pistoi: "inseguo un mio disegno", (Turin: Hopefulmonster editore, 2008), repr. p. 191 (reproduction of a page from the brochure for the solo show at Galleria Notizie, Turin, 1968). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 141 p. 162, repr. |
| • | A. Portesio, “'Quello che per il pittore è la squadratura della tela, per lo scrittore è l’incipit'. L’arte di Giulio Paolini raccontata da Italo Calvino. Con un’intervista a Giulio Paolini", in Avanguardia 14, no. 40 (Rome), June, 2009, p. 81, repr. p. 86. |
| • | A. Altamira, "Eredità della foto concettuale", in La rivista bianca FMR 9 (Villanova di Castenaso), October-November, 2009, pp. 102-103, repr. p. 99. |
| • | R. Perna, In forma di fotografia. Ricerche artistiche in Italia dal 1960 al 1970 (Rome: Derive Approdi, 2009), p. 122, not repr. |
| • | J. Heiser, "Le mie parole, e tu? L'arte povera e le sue affinità con il concettualismo internazionale e il romanticismo", in Il confine evanescente. Arte italiana 1960-2010, edited by G. Guercio and A. Mattirolo (Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2010), p. 136, not repr. |
| • | 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, repr. no. 313 p. 386. |
| • | T. Migliore, "Ritratti ‘portratti’. Giulio Paolini e l’identikit dell’artista", in L’immagine che siamo. Ritratto e soggettività nell’estetica contemporanea, edited by M.G. Di Monte, M. Di Monte and H. de Riedmatten (Rome: Carocci editore, 2014), p. 129, not repr. |
| • | B. Yasar, "‘Hypothesis for an Exhibition’", in "Hypothesis for an Exhibition", exhibition catalogue, New York, Dominique Lévy Gallery, 2014, pp. 32, 34, repr. p. 34. |
| • | J. Meinhardt, "Vedere ed essere visti. Giulio Paolini e lo sguardo", in E. Franz et al., Giulio Paolini. Vedo e non vedo. In tema 1 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2014), p. 102, repr. p. 99. |
| • | G. Sergio, Information Document Œuvre. Parcours de la photographie en Italie dans les années Soixante et Soixante-dix (Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2015), p. 163, repr. p. 165. |
| • | 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. 219. |
| • | B. Fontes Ferraz, “Italo Calvino e Giulio Paolini: Diálogos entre mídias”, in RevLet – Revista Virtual de Letras 08, no. 1 (Jaitaí, Brasil), January-July, 2016, pp. 388-390, repr. p. 388. |
| • | L. Vecere, In assenza. Appunti sull’autoritratto contemporaneo (Pisa: University Press, 2017), p. 72, repr. p. 73. |
| • | E. Grazioli, Infrasottile. L’arte contemporanea ai limiti (Milan: Postmedia books, 2018), p. 73, repr. p. 70. |
| • | D. Gavagnin, Fini & Confini. Il territorio nell’arte fotografica (Pasian di Prato: Campanotto Editore, 2018), p. 342, repr. p. 343. |
| • | E. Francesconi, Franco Angeli e Tano Festa. Pittori con la macchina da presa (Milan: Postmedia Books, 2018), p. 104, not repr. |
| • | La strada. Dove si crea il mondo / The street. Where the world is made, exhibition catalogue, Rome, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, vol. 2 (Macerata: Quodlibet 2018), repr. p. 111. |
| • | A. Cortellessa, "Un appuntamento mancato", in Giulio Paolini / Giorgio de Chirico, edited by Id. (Turin: Nino Aragno editore, 2019), p. 60, repr. |
| • | M. Disch, "The Author, the Work and the Viewer: The ‘Performative’ Dimension in Giulio Paolini’s Work", in Entrare nell’opera. Processes and Performative Attitudes in Arte Povera, exhibition catalogue, Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2019), p. 193, repr. p. 65 (with incorrect photo credit); in the German edition published in 2021 p. 83, not repr. |
| • | F. Guzzetti, “'Ich war ein Mann der Institution'”: Jean-Christoph Ammann e Processi di pensiero visualizzati", in Ricerche di storia dell’arte” 132 (Rome) 2020, p. 14, not repr. |
| • | A. Cortellessa, “I rivali invisibili. Paolini e Calvino, evoluzioni fra le cornici”, in Giulio Paolini. O.D.E., exhibition catalogue, Monforte d’Alba (Cuneo), Castello di Perno (Alba: Fondazione Mancini Carini, 2022), pp. 92, 93, repr. p. 105 no. 14. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), repr. p. 148 (exhibition view Parma 1976). |
| • | “Lo stato dell’arte. 5 domande / 3 artisti. Intervista a Giulio Paolini”, in Inside Art 19, no. 128 (Rome), July, 2023, repr. p. 69. |
| • | A. Cortellessa, “La cornice e le stelle”, in G. Paolini, Idem (Milan: Electa, 2023), pp. 141-142, repr. pp. 53, 141. |
| • | S.M.S. Cammarata, Arte povera e identità italiana. Le mostre di Germano Celant (Milan: Postmedia Books, 2025), p. 222, not repr. |
| • | R. Minnucci, “Out of Fous: Anna Piva and Giulio Paolini’s Artistic Partnership”, in Art and Intimacy in Modern Italy, edited by S. Hecker and T. Kittler (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025), p. 38, repr. no. 3.2 p. 39. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 30/04/2026
