Omissis, 1997-98
GPO-0802
Plexiglas sheet, crumpled photographic reproduction, nylon thread, steel pivots
80 x 120 cm
Dismantled work
A nylon wire stretched between four steel pegs marks the diagonals of a hypothetical rectangular surface. Corresponding to the point of intersection is a crumpled colour reproduction of a blue sky.
The ”omission” mentioned in the Latin expression in the title refers to the central nucleus, which is not revealed, as well as to the “painting” referred to only by the outline of the diagonals.
The same title was used for a complementary version made during the same year, in which the diagonals of the same size are carved in a plexiglas sheet, associated with other paper elements (GPO-0803).
| 1998 | Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum, Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, 4 April - 31 May, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 18 p. 181, not repr. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 802 p. 822, col. repr. |