Titolo, 1967-68

On two large sheets of blank paper, pinned to two primed canvases of the same size and placed together so that they resemble an open book, the artist wrote one by one – starting at the top left on the first sheet so that there would be an empty space at the end of the second sheet – the letters in the names of the people listed in alphabetical order in his notebook.1
In Titolo, Paolini says, the author “verifies his existence as a subject: he qualifies his own identity via the extension of the names of the people that acknowledge it”.2
The same theme was developed in a subsequent version, produced in 1971 with the same dimensions but with a larger number of names (GPO-0216). Titolo also led to an print edition entitled with the encyclopaedic entry corresponding to the word "infinite": Ciò che non ha limiti e che per la sua stessa natura non ammette limitazioni di sorta (GPE-0003).

1 The names include, from the first at the top left on the first sheet: Franco Angeli, Carla Accardi, Getulio Alviani, Franco Aschieri, Valerio Adami, Rodolfo Aricò, Jacques Benador, Umberto Bignardi, Alighiero Boetti, Anne Marie Boetti, Roberto Bisacco, Giuseppe Bartolucci, Paola Betti, Palma Bucarelli, Achille Bonito Oliva, Nanni Balestrini, Stelio Corsi, Enrico Castellani, Attilio Codognato, Antonio Carena, Mario Ceroli, Giovanni Camuffo, Germano Celant, Pietro Consagra, Luigi Carluccio, Eugenio Carmi, Luigi Campi, Mauro Chessa, Clino Castelli, Mara Coccia, Plinio De Martiis, Gillo Dorfles, Giorgio De Marchis, Piero De Rossi, Graziella De Rossi, Guido Davico, Giorgio De Ferrari, Paola De Ferrari, Lydia D’Angelo, Giulio Einaudi, Tano Festa, Maurizio Fagiolo, Antonio Forchino, Ernesto Ferrero, Lucio Fontana, Teresita Fontana, Luciano Fabro, Carla Fabro, Paolo Fossati, Piero Gatti, Renzo Guasco, Franco Giachino, Paola Giachino, Piero Gilardi, Lionello Gennero, Giorgio Griffa, Alberto Gozzi, Claudia Gozzi, Emidio Greco, Jannis Kounellis, Philip King, Guido Le Noci, Corrado Levi, Laura Levi, Carla Lonzi, Giantomaso Liverani, Mila Leva, Sergio Lombardo, Eva Menzio, Beatrice Monti, Aldo Mondino, Ugo Mulas, Renato Mambor, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Marcella Marchese, Gian Renzo Morteo, Fausto Melotti, Francesco Masnata, Caroll Mc Guire, Henry Martin, Luigi Mallè, Gino Marotta, Mario Nigro, Ugo Nespolo, Pier Giorgio Nuvolone, Diego Novelli, Nico Orengo, Piera Oppezzo, Ninì Pirandello, Luciano Pistoi, Nello Ponente, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Remo Pastori, Maria Pioppi, Gianni Piacentino, Fausta Piacentino, Pino Pascali, Sergio Pautasso, Aldo Passoni, Anna Piva, Mario Pezzoli, Pier Luigi Pero, Marina Pero, Attilio Podestà, Emilio Prini, Nello Pacifico, Daniele Ponchiroli, Gian Maria Pellion, Anna Pellion, Daniela Palazzoli, Giorgio Prever, Gigliola Re, Gianni Romano, Franco Rosso, Luciano Re, Mariella Rossetti, Mimmo Rotella, Gualtiero Rizzi, Carlo Repetto, Ippolito Simonis, Gian Enzo Sperone, Patrizia Sperone, Mario Schifano, Sandro Stratta, Vittorio Sermonti, Mita Stein, Ileana Sonnabend, Arturo Schwarz, Beppe Sesia, Gianni Emilio Simonetti, Eva Sorensen, Antonino Titone, Cesare Tacchi, Tommaso Trini, Cy Twombly, Nicola Trentalance, Alberto Ulrich, Saverio Vertone, Marisa Volpi, Cesare Vivaldi, Nico Verdun, Enrica Verdun, Mario Verdun, Anna Verdun, Riccardo Vianello, Carla Vasio, Nanda Vigo, Renata Wirz, Lea Vergine, Bartolomeo Zavattero, Ileana Zeppetella, Gilberto Zorio.
2 G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2001), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 147 p. 166.