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Primo appunto sul tempo, 1968
GPO-0148
First Note on Time
Ink on pouncing paper, prepared canvas, drawing-pins
200 x 200 cm
Signed and dated on the verso, upper left: "Giulio Paolini / 1968"
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin, on loan from Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT
Acquired by Fondazione CRT in 2005, inventory no. C-PAOG-009
On a sheet of pouncing paper, held down by drawing pins on a primed canvas of the same size, is a pen inscription that gives the work its name.
The instant that passed while writing those four words constitutes a "note” concerning the incommensurable dimensions of time. The marginal nature of the inscription also almost imperceptibly underscores the absence of an image, just as the sheet of paper pinned to the canvas removes a potential vision from the viewer's gaze.
| 1968 | Turin, Galleria Notizie, Giulio Paolini, 10 April - 2 May, cited in the checklist of exhibited works, repr. (detail). |
| 1970 | Lucerne, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Processi di pensiero visualizzati. Junge italienische Avantgarde, 31 May - 5 July, not repr. |
| 1976 | Tokyo, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Sette Italiani e sette Giapponesi. Nuovi strumenti di conoscenza nella ricerca artistica attuale, 7 - 18 November, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 22, repr. n. pag. (detail). |
| 1985-86 | Paris, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Giovanni Anselmo, Marcel Broodthaers, Luciano Fabro, Barry Flanagan, Giulio Paolini, 30 November 1985 - 18 January 1986. |
| 1995 | Paris, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Arte Povera 1965-1972, 11 March - 13 May. |
| 2002-03 | Bordeaux, capcMusée d’art contemporain, Les années 70. L’art en cause, 18 October 2002 - 19 January 2003, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 403, col. repr. p. 152. |
| 2008-09 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Una stanza tutta per sé, 2 April 2008 - 18 January 2009, no catalogue. |
| 2011 | Moscow, Multimedia Art Museum, Arte Povera in Moscow. Works from the collection of the Castello di Rivoli, 24 May - 10 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 127, col. repr. pp. 86, 176 (exhibition view), [anonymous] commentary pp. 139-140. |
| 2014-15 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Intenzione manifesta. Il disegno in tutte le sue forme, 11 October 2014 - 25 January 2015, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 281, col. repr. pp. 128-129 (detail). |
| 2015 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, exhibited in Room 16, from 28 October, as part of the installation of the Collection. |
| 2018 | Saint Petersburg, Hermitage, Arte Povera. A Creative Revolution,17 May - 16 August, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 31 p. 116, col. repr. no. 31 p. 80. |
| 2024-25 | Paris, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Arte Povera, 9 October 2024 - 20 January 2025, col. repr. no. 8 p. 247, catalogue entry by S.M.S. Cammarata p. 246. |
| • | T. Trini, “Giulio Paolini, le bandiere del senzabandiera”, in Domus 470 (Milan), January, 1969, p. 48, not repr. |
| • | G. Celant, Arte Povera (Milan: Gabriele Mazzotta Editore, 1969), repr. p. 148 (detail); idem in the English editions Art Povera (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1969) and Arte Povera. Conceptual Actual or Impossible Art? (London: Studio Vista, 1969). |
| • | T. Trini, in Arte e Critica 70, exhibition catalogue, Modena, Galleria della Sala di Cultura, 1970, repr. n. pag. |
| • | G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press, 1972), p. 72, repr. no. 63 p. 69 (detail); republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by Id. (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), p. 232; reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019). |
| • | T. Trini, “Agnetti: uso e nozione del tempo”, in Data III, no. 7-8 (Milan), Summer, 1973, p. 21, not repr.; republished in Tommaso Trini. Mezzo secolo di arte intera. Scritti 1964-2014, edited by L. Cerizza (Milan: Johan & Levi Editore, 2016, p. 119, not repr. |
| • | G. Paolini, Idem (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1975), repr. p. 38 (detail); new edition (Milan: Electa, 2023), repr. p. 64 (detail). |
| • | M. Fagiolo, "Glossario", in Giulio Paolini (Parma: Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976), p. 19, repr. no. 88 (detail). |
| • | P. Tedeschi, "In una casa ‘povera’. Una Collezione di Arte Povera", in Vogue Italia 391 (Milan), September II, 1982, col. repr. p. 846 (installation view at the home of the collector Ermini). |
| • | Giulio Paolini, vol. Images/Index (Villeurbanne: Le Nouveau Musée, 1984), repr. p. 31 (detail). |
| • | 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), pp. 11-12, repr. p. 13 (detail); republished in Markus Lüpertz, Giulio Paolini: figure, colonne, finestre, exhibition catalogue, Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli, 1986, p. 76, not repr. |
| • | D. Zacharopoulos, “Arte povera aujourd’hui”, in Flash Art 4 (Milan, French edition), Summer, 1984, p. 51, not repr. |
| • | Fra usikkerhet til samlet Kraft..., exhibition catalogue, Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, 1986, repr. n. pag. (detail). |
| • | G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. p. 249 (detail). |
| • | F. Poli, "Note di lettura", in Id., Giulio Paolini (Turin: Lindau, 1990), pp. 41, 43, 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), pp. 67, 71, not repr. |
| • | G. de Marchis, Scusi ma è arte questa? Guida illustrata all’avanguardia e alla neoavanguardia (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1991), pp. 278-279, not repr. |
| • | N. Bätzner, Arte Povera. Zwischen Erinnerung und Ereignis: Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis (Nuremberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2000), p. 59, not repr. |
| • | Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, op. cit. (Milan: 2003), col. repr. p. 247. |
| • | L’Art au Futur Antérieur. Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, l’engagement d’une galerie 1975-2004, exhibition catalogue, Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble (Arles-Paris: Actes Sud, 2004), repr. no. 096 (in the Gallery's exhibition history). |
| • | G. de Marchis, Album di viaggio in quarant’anni di arte italiana: 1960-2000 (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 2005), p. 156, repr. p. 98. |
| • | M. Bandini, M.C. Mundici, M.T. Roberto, Luciano Pistoi: "inseguo un mio disegno" (Turin: Hopefulmonster editore, 2008), repr. p. 191 (detail); 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. 148 pp. 168-169, col. repr. |
| • | Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. La Residenza Sabauda – La Collezione (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), p. 407, col. repr. pp. 416-417 (exhibition view Rivoli 2008). |
| • | Dieci anni e oltre. La collezione della Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT per Torino e il Piemonte, edited by M. Beccaria and E. Volpato (Berlin: Archive Books, 2010), repr. p. 364 (detail). |
| • | 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. 15, not repr. |
| • | Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. La storia e le collezioni, edited by C. Christov-Bakargiev and M. Beccaria, Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 2023), vol. I, pp. 61-62 (referred to in the text by L. Mensi), not repr.; vol. II, pp. 820 (referred to in the text by M. Beccaria), col. repr. p. 825. |
| • | G. Paolini, Eccomi. Qui dove sono (Turin: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini, 2025), col. repr. p. 99 (exhibition view Paris 2024). |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 30/04/2026
