Dimostrazione, 1974-75
GPO-0299
Demonstration
Cameras, tripods
Dismantled work
The work entails the vis-à-vis of two cameras on two tripods turned so that they face each other.
Each of the facing elements records itself or its equal, that is, it confirms or verifies the situation captured by our gaze before the work. The "demonstration" in question does not just concern the object called into play, but also and above all the visual act that captures it.
In the artist's own words: “‘Demonstration’ is perhaps one of those words that are best used to verify the boundaries, both conventional and undecipherable, of the signs of language. I found it to be suited to defining an aspect of perception that tends, in fact, to demonstrate itself”1.
The same theme, formulated for the first time in 1974 with two canvases (GPO-0272), was also developed in two other variants made during the same year (GPO-0300, GPO-0312).
1 G. Paolini, Idem (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1975), p. 92, new edition (Milan: Electa, 2023), p. 118.
| 1975 | Graz, Künstlerhaus, Trigon 75. Identität – Alternative Identität – Gegenidentität, 6 October - 2 November 1975, vol. 2, repr. n. pag. (exhibition view). |
| • | G. Paolini, Idem (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1975), p. 92, new edition (Milan: Electa, 2023), p. 118. |
| • | Viaggio in Italia. Italienische Kunst 1960 bis 1990 aus der Sammlung der Neuen Galerie Graz und der VAF Stiftung, Frankfurt am Main, edited by C. Steinle and G. Danzer (Graz-Cologne: Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008), repr. p. 282 (exhibition view Graz 1975). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 299 p. 308, repr. (exhibition view Graz 1975). |
