Due per uno, 1993-94
GPO-0740
Two for One
Red pencil on primed canvas, pencil on reversed canvas
Primed canvas 40 x 60 cm, reversed canvas 80 x 120 cm, overall dimensions 120 x 145 cm
Private collection
An overturned canvas whose diagonals are marked in pencil and is suspended on the wall in a tilted position holds in the crossbar of the stretcher, installed horizontally, one canvas viewed from the recto with the diagonals marked in red pencil.
The staggered elements, as they await an ideal correspondence, are a prelude to the definition of a potential painting, evoked on a conceptual level and also by way of the reference to the artist's first work, Disegno geometrico, 1960 (GPO-0001). Hence the title, which refers to the two canvases, called into play in the attempt to identify one painting.
The same theme was developed later in three more variants, made during the same year (GPO-0741, GPO-0745) and in 1998 (GPO-0822), which each time include an increasing number of elements.
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 740 p. 754, col. repr. |
