Grandezza naturale, 1984
GPO-0527
Life-size
Framed photo print, torn photo enlargement, armchair
Frame 50 x 42 cm, overall dimensions 110 x 80 x 80 cm
Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini, Turin
Gift of the artist, 25 October 2012, archive no. GPO-0527
The photograph of a drawing by Antonio Canova depicting a man sitting down, framed as though it were a facsimile, reproduces the drawing in its original dimensions, while the torn photographic enlargement of the same work represents the life-size image of the subject of the drawing, with half-rolled up fragments arranged on the chair to evoke the presence of the seated figure.
The same theme was formulated in two subsequent variants as well, made in 1987 (GPO-0603) and in 1995 (GPO-0764), with other drawings by Canova.
Images from Disegni di Canova del Museo di Bassano, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Castello Sforzesco (Milan: Electa, 1982), plate 40 (“Uomo seduto di profilo con corto mantello, il capo appoggiato al braccio sinistro”).
| 1984-85 | Berlin, Daadgalerie, Rosenfest Berlin 1984, 17 December 1984 - 20 January 1985, repr. p. 19 (the artist during the installation of the work), col. repr. pp. 33-35 (exhibition views). |
| 1986-87 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli, Markus Lüpertz, Giulio Paolini: figure, colonne, finestre, 19 December 1986 - 29 March 1987, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 55 p. 117, not repr. |
| 1988-89 | Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Balkon mit Fächer. 25 Jahre Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, 18 December 1988 - 5 February 1989, touring to: Cologne, DuMont Kunsthalle, May-June, 1989; The Hague, Gemente Museum, Autumn, 1989, col. repr. pp. 84-85 (exhibition view Berlin 1984-85). |
| 1990 | Bari, Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Giulio Paolini, from 18 April. |
| • | Paolini. Melanconia ermetica, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Galerie Maeght Lelong, 1985, repr. p. 23. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. “Tutto qui”, exhibition catalogue, Ravenna, Pinacoteca Comunale, Loggetta Lombardesca (Ravenna: Agenzia Editoriale Essegi, 1985), repr. no. 47. |
| • | Mater dulcissima, exhibition catalogue, Siracusa, Chiesa dei Cavalieri di Malta (Syracuse: Edizioni Tema Celeste, 1986), repr. no. 43 p. 78. |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1986, vol. 4, repr. p. 43. |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Nagoya, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1987, repr. p. 37. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Il “Teatro” dell’opera, exhibition catalogue, Pesaro, Galleria Franca Mancini (Ravenna: Agenzia Editoriale Essegi, 1991), repr. p. 30 (exhibition view Berlin 1984-85), col. repr. p. 51 (exhibition view Bari 1990). |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998), repr. p. 271. |
| • | Italia 2000. Arte e sistema dell’Arte, edited by A. Bonito Oliva (Madrid-Milan: ARCO Madrid and Giampaolo Prearo Editore, 2000), col. repr. p. 36 (exhibition view Bari 1990). |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Premio Internazionale Koinè 2000 alla carriera, exhibition catalogue, Verona, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti (Milan: Electa, 2001), repr. p. 58 (exhibition view Bari 1990). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 527 p. 539, 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), col. repr. p. 100 (exhibition view Bari 1990). |
