Grandezza naturale, 1986-87
GPO-0603
Life-size
Framed photo print, torn photo enlargement, white plinth
Frame 50 x 42 cm, plinth 100 x 50 x 43
Studio La Città, Verona
The photograph of a drawing by Antonio Canova portraying a slumped figure, framed as though it were a facsimile and set down on a plinth in a staggered position, reproduces the drawing in its original dimensions. The torn photographic enlargement of the same work represents the subject of the drawing in a life-size version, with the semi-rolled fragments arranged under the frame so that they in part drop downwards.
The same theme was formulated in two other variants as well, made in 1984 (GPO-0527) and in 1995 (GPO-0764), respectively.
Image from Disegni di Canova del Museo di Bassano, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Castello Sforzesco (Milan: Electa, 1982), plate 51 (“Uomo seduto, completamente ammantato, con il capo coperto appoggiato ad un tavolo”).
| 1987 | Milan, Galleria Françoise Lambert, Robert Barry, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Giulio Paolini, Lawrence Weiner, from 30 May. |
| 1995 | Santa Monica, Patricia Faure Gallery, Starting with Fontana, 14 July - 18 August. |
| 2012 | London, Ronchini Gallery, Italian Beauty: Works by Giulio Paolini, Domenico Bianchi and Giò Ponti, 17 February - 5 April, col. repr. pp. 5 (exhibition view), 33. |
| 2018 | Milan, Galleria Fumagalli, Giulio Paolini. Teoria delle apparenze. Opere 1969-2015, 16 January - 14 April, col. repr. pp. 4, 28-29, 36-37, 42-43, 46-47, 70-7 (exhibition views), referred to in the text by A. Maggi pp. 23-24. |
| 2018 | Verona, Studio La Città, Senza tema. Carta / Paper, 9 June - 15 September. |
| • | G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. p. 142. |
| • | M. Meneguzzo, in Giulio Paolini, brochure, Verona, Studio La Città, 2007, repr. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 603 p. 618, col. repr. |
