Senza titolo, 1981
GPO-0462
Untitled
Pencil and collage on wall and on floor, elastic threads
Dismantled work
Four black elastic threads materialize the gaze of the figure in a seventeenth-century costume (borrowed from a collection of treatises on perspective), reproduced in the torn photographic enlargement, connecting the eye situated at the centre of the back wall to the outer vertices of the display space. Inscribed in the viewer's visual field are eleven rectangles, traced on the wall and on the floor (in a trapezoidal space thus suggesting the perspectival distorsion), each of which holds a torn fragment of the image of the figure itself.
The work constitutes a reformulation of the theme developed in Hortus clausus, made a few months earlier (GPO-0442).
Figure from Pierre Descargues, Traités de perspective (Paris: Editions du Chêne, 1976), p. 102 (Abraham Bosse, “Les perspecteurs”).
| 1981-82 | Paris, Musée national d’art moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Murs, 17 December 1981 - 8 February 1982, repr. n. pag. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 462 p. 473, col. repr. |
