Titolo (II), 1968-71
GPO-0216
Title (II)
Ink on paper affixed to primed canvas with white drawing pins
160 x 250 cm (two parts 160 x 125 cm each)
Signed, titled and dated on the verso of the first canas, upper stretcher bar, right: “Giulio Paolini / Titolo (II) 1968-71”
Gian Enzo Sperone Collection
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 – the letters in the names of the people listed in alphabetical order in his notebook.1
With respect to the first version of Titolo, made in 1968 (GPO-0147), Titolo III contains a longer list of names – as other names were added to the artist's personal notebook over three years' time – consequently making their layout on the page closer together.
1 The names include, from the first at the top left on the first canvas: Franco Angeli, Getulio Alviani, Carla Accardi, Franco Aschieri, Valerio Adami, Rodolfo Aricò, Giovanni Anselmo, Giulio Carlo Argan, Virgilio Anglesio, Clara Allegretti, Jacques Benador, Umberto Bignardi, Giorgio Bison, Alighiero Boetti, Anne Marie Boetti, Roberto Bisacco, Pippo Baldioli, Giuseppe Bartolucci, Paola Betti, Palma Bucarelli, Achille Bonito Oliva, Nanni Balestrini, Alberto Boatto, Cesare Brandi, Guido Boursier, Claudio Bruni, Gaetano Benatti, Michael Buthe, Renato Barilli, Elio Benoldi, Gino Becker, Stelio Corsi, Franco Condelli, Franca Chiabra, Enrico Castellani, Attilio Codognato, Antonio Carena, Mario Ceroli, Giovanni Camuffo, Germano Celant, Pietro Consagra, Luigi Carluccio, Eugenio Carmi, Luigi Campi, Emma Campi, Mauro Chessa, Clino Castelli, Mara Coccia, Maurizio Calvesi, Tullio Catalano, Federico Cerruti, Rosangela Cochrane, Andrew Stuart Cochrane, Italo Calvino, Plinio De Martiis, Gillo Dorfles, Giorgio De Marchis, Piero De Rossi, Graziella De Rossi, Guido Davico Bonino, Giorgio De Ferrari, Paola De Ferrari, Lydia D’Angelo, Maria Pia De Martini, Antonio De Bernardi, Giulio Einaudi, Gianfranco Fasce, Tano Festa, Maurizio Fagiolo, Antonio Forchino, Ernesto Ferrero, Teresita Fontana, Luciano Fabro, Carla Fabro, Paolo Fossati, Gianfranco Fini, Giosetta Fioroni, Nino Franchina, Edoardo Fadini, Mario Fusco, Dada Fusco, Filippo Fossati, Caterina Fossati, Piero Fedeli, Valerio Fantinel, Mariangela Frydman, Luciano Frydman, Ezio Gribaudo, Piero Gatti, Ada Gatti, Giorgio Gallizio, Albino Galvano, Renzo Guasco, Franco Giachino, Paola Giachino, Piero Gilardi, Lionello Gennero, Giorgio Griffa, Alberto Gozzi, Claudia Gozzi, Emidio Greco, Marcolino Gandini, Laura Grisi, Alfredo Giuliani, Renato Gissi, Pietro Gallina, Giulietta Gozzi, Marcia Hafif, Ettore Innocente, Marcello Ilari, Jannis Kounellis, Efi Kounellis, Philip King, Guido Le Noci, Mila Leva, Corrado Levi, Laura Levi, Carla Lonzi, Giantomaso Liverani, Sergio Lombardo, Marta Lonzi, Ada Minola, Gio Minola, Eva Menzio, Paolo 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, Guido Montana, Mario Maffiodo, Paolo Milano, Giuseppe Marchiori, Filiberto Menna, Giovanna Maltese, Eliseo Mattiacci, Roberto Maini, Enzo Mari, Vanni Mavaracchio, Violetta Nigro, Mario Nigro, Ugo Nespolo, Paolo Giorgio Nuvolone, Diego Novelli, Guido Neri, Alberta Orengo, Nico Orengo, Piera Oppezzo, Nando Orlandini, Ninì Pirandello, Luciano Pistoi, Nello Ponente, Anna Piva, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Remo Pastori, Gianni Piacentino, Fausta Piacentino, Sergio Pautasso, Aldo Passoni, Paolo Pistoi, Mario Pezzoli, Pier Luigi Pero, Marina Pero, Emilio Prini, Nello Pacifico, Daniele Ponchiroli, Attilio Podestà, Gian Maria Pellion, Anna Pellion, Daniela Palazzoli, Giorgio Prever, Francesco Pron, Giovanni Pron, Letizia Paolozzi, Maria Pioppi, Elio Pagliarani, Marinella Pirelli, Paola Pitagora, Giancarlo Politi, Valeria Panizza, Carlo Quartucci, Folco Quilici, Pierre Restany, Gigliola Re, Gianni Romano, Franco Rosso, Luciano Re, Mariella Rossetti, Mimmo Rotella, Gualtiero Rizzi, Carlo Repetto, Mario Ricci, Piero Rambaudi, Marcello Rumma, 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, Luisa Spagnoli, Alan Solomon, Carla Scapitta, Armando Scatena, Delia Sodano, Michel Tapié, Antonino Titone, Cesare Tacchi, Tommaso Trini, Cy Twombly, Giovanni Traversa, Alberto Ulrich, Saverio Vertone, Marisa Volpi, Cesare Vivaldi, Nico Verdun, Enrica Verdun, Mario Verdun, Anna Verdun, Riccardo Vianello, Carla Vasio, Nanda Vigo, Lea Vergine, Renata Wirz, Bartolomeo Zavattero, Gilberto Zorio, Ileana Zeppetella.
| 1997-98 | Venice, Palazzo Querini Dubois, Minimalia. Da Giacomo Balla a…, 12 June - 12 October, touring to: Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 28 January - 6 April 1998, repr. p. 147 (detail, erroneously titled “Agenda”). |
| 2009 | Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1968. Die grosse Unschuld, 15 March - 2 August, col. repr. pp. 396-397, referred to in the text by R. Grabner p. 393. |
| • | Minimalia: An Italian Vision in 20th Century Art, exhibition catalogue, New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (Milan: Electa, 1999), col. repr. p. 95 (rotated by 180 degrees and cropped, erroneously titled "Agenda"). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 216 p. 225, col. repr. |
