Tre per uno, 1994
GPO-0741
Three for One
Primed canvas, pencil on reversed canvas and on wall
Primed canvas 35 x 45 cm, reversed canvas 80 x 110 cm, drawing on wall 100 x 140 cm, overall dimensions 140 x 140 cm
Sergio Sanesi Collection, Prato
Two canvases of different sizes installed so they are tilted and turned in the opposite direction – the large one is upside down, the smaller one is visible from the recto – are matched on a rectangle drawn on the wall right side up. In the points where the overturned canvas overlaps the drawing, the line continues onto the canvas.
The staggered elements, as they await an ideal correspondence, are a prelude to the definition of a potential painting (hence, the title, which refers to the three elements called into play in the attempt to identify one painting).
The same theme was developed in three other variants, made during the same year (GPO-0740, GPO-0745) and in 1998 (GPO-0822), which each time involve a different number of elements.
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 741 p. 755, repr. |
