Quadrante, 1975
GPO-0289
Quadrant
Photo prints mounted on canvas, coloured pencils on primed canvas
80 x 300 cm (three parts 80 x 100 cm each)
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso of the third canvas, upper stretcher bar, right: “Giulio Paolini Quadrante 1975”
Private collection
Two colour reproductions of the painting Paysage avec des voyageurs au repos (1637-40) by Nicolas Poussin are evoked on the middle canvas in a coloured pencil drawing that shows a reduced image of the two lateral elements. The spatial framing of the drawing does not just include the lateral elements in a room seen in perspective (meant to be the mirror of the space in which we find ourselves gazing at the painting), but at the same time it also duplicates the outline of the stretchers.
In other words, the work serves as a "quadrant" for itself, orienting the viewer's gaze towards the perception of the work as such.
The same theme was formulated in three other variants made during the same year (GPO-0287, GPO-0288, GPO-0840).
Nicolas Poussin, Paysage avec des voyageurs au repos, c. 1638-39, oil on canvas, 63 x 77.8 cm, The National Gallery, London.
| 2003 | Milan, Studio Giangaleazzo Visconti, Lucio Fontana, Giulio Paolini, Mario Schifano, June-July. |
| 2010 | Turin, Galleria In Arco, Tracks and Traces, 18 March - 8 May, col. repr. pp. 50-51. |
| 2010 | Paris, Galerie Di Meo, Arte Povera 2, 15 October - 27 November. |
| • | M. Fagiolo, “Glossario”, in Giulio Paolini (Parma: Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976), p. 24, repr. no. 199. |
| • | M. Scholz-Hänsel, “Das imaginäre Museum Giulio Paolinis”, in Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1986, vol. 2, p. 11, not repr. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 289 p. 300, col. repr. |
