Marcel Proust, 1968

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Archive number

GPO-0158

Technique

Photo emulsion on canvas

Dimensions

26 x 38 cm (two parts 26 x 19 cm each)

Inscriptions by the artist

Signed, titled, and dated on the verso of the second canvas, upper stretcher bar, centre: “Giulio Paolini / Marcel Proust / 1968”

Collection

Lorenzo and Marilena Bonomo Collection

Description

The image of Marcel Proust's gaze is doubled on two photographic canvases placed together in the manner of an open book, "as if the two 'pages' immediately revealed to us, without the mediation of the writing, the gaze of the author via the framing of the book".1

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. 158 p. 178.

Exhibitions

2003-05

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, 11 October 2003 - 4 January 2004, touring to: Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum, 8 February - 9 May 2004; Vigo, MARCO Museo de arte contemporánea, 28 May - 19 September; Winterthur, Fotomuseum, 26 November 2004 - 20 February 2005; Miami, Miami Art Central, 10 March - 12 June 2005, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 113 p. 326, repr. pp. 230-231.

Artist’ writings

•	G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2003), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 158 p. 178.

Bibliography

•	"Tracce di artisti contemporanei in un antico convento francescano", in Vogue Italia 394 (Milan), December, 1982, col. repr. p. 263 (installation view at Bonomo Collection, Spoleto).
•	“Al limite. Arte e fotografia tra gli anni Sessanta e Settanta”, exhibition catalogue, Reggio Emilia, Chiostri di S. Domenico, 2006, repr. p. 20 (incompletely titled “Proust”).
•	M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 158 p. 178, repr.
•	...but, where is Bari? Percorso nell'arte contemporanea. La Galleria Bonomo dal 1971 / A Journey in contemporary art. The Bonomo Gallery since 1971 (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 2010), repr. p. 57.
•	"Hypothesis for an Exhibition", exhibition catalogue, New York, Dominique Lévy Gallery, 2014, repr. pp. 2-3.

Entry by Maddalena Disch, 30/04/2026