Vis-à-vis (Kore), 2020
GPO-1090
Vis-à-vis (Kore)
Plaster casts, white plinths, pencil on primed canvas
Two casts h 47 cm each, two plinths 125 x 36 x 18 cm each, canvas 160 x 240 cm, overall dimensions 240 x 240 x 22 cm
Private collection
The canvas must be hung 80 cm from the ground, perfectly parallel to the floor. The plinths and the casts must be attached respectively to the wooden dowels and to the hooks set up on the canvas.
The two halves of a plaster cast of the head of a Hellenistic kore are arranged to face each other – vis-à-vis as the title tells us – on two plinths positioned up against the primed canvas hanging on the wall. The pencil drawing recalls a room in perspective.
The gazes exchanged between the two identical faces, staged against the background of this “theatrical setting”, questions the reasons for the very existence of the work and its coming into being through our own gaze.
The work is part of the development of a theme formulated in 1992 with Vis-à-vis (Alessandro) (GPO-0707) and Vis-à-vis (Hera) (a multiple, GPE-0087), reformulated in 2019 in the three variants of Vis-à-vis (Amazzone) (GPO-1087, GPO-1088, GPO-1089).
Greek woman, 120 AD, Villa Borghese, Rome.
| 2020-21 | Milan, Galleria Christian Stein, Giulio Paolini. Qui dove sono, 30 September 2020 - 30 January 2021. |
