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Et quid amabo nisi quod ænigma est?, 1969-70

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Archive number

GPC-0172

Technique

Collage on paper

Dimensions

35 x 35 cm

Inscriptions by the artist

Signed and dated on the verso, centre: “Giulio Paolini / 1969-70”

Collection

Collection of the artist

Sources

Quotation from Giorgio de Chirico, Portrait de l’artiste par lui-même, 1910-11, oil on canvas, 72.5 x 55 cm, Private collection.

Exhibitions

1999	Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen-Bachem, Giulio Paolini, 8 March - 30 April, repr. on the invitation.
2016-17	New York, Center for Italian Modern Art, Giorgio de Chirico – Giulio Paolini / Giulio Paolini – Giorgio de Chirico, 14 October 2016 - 24 June 2017, col. repr. on back cover.
2018-19	Milan, Fondazione Carriero, Giulio Paolini. Del Bello ideale, 26 October 2018 - 10 February 2019, col. repr. vol. 1, pp. 122-123, 124-125 (exhibition views), 164.
2019	Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Giorgio de Chirico. Ritorno al futuro, 19 April - 25 August, col. repr. p. 163.

Bibliography

•	Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1980, repr. p. 23.
•	Giulio Paolini. “Tutto qui”, exhibition catalogue, Ravenna, Pinacoteca Comunale, Loggetta Lombardesca (Ravenna: Agenzia Editoriale Essegi, 1985), repr. on cover (cropped on the left and right sides).
•	L. Busine, Les Doublures de Giulio Paolini (Brussels: Édition Lebeer-Hossmann, 1986), repr. p. 67 (rotated by 90 degrees anticlockwise).
•	M. Scholz-Hänsel, Das imaginäre Museum Giulio Paolinis, in Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1986, vol. 2, p. 14, repr. p. 8.
•	M. Bouisset, Arte Povera (Paris: Éditions du Regard, 1994), repr. p. 53.
•	L. Busine, Giulio Paolini, in Digraphe 67 (Paris), February, 1994, repr. p. 112 (cropped on all four sides and incompletely dated "1969").
•	Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Graz, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998), repr. p. 230.
•	N. Bätzner, “Giulio Paolini”, in Id., Arte Povera. Zwischen Erinnerung und Ereignis: Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis (Nuremberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2000), p. 75, repr. p. 74 (erroneously dated “1969-85”).
•	La Biennale di Venezia: 54. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte. L’arte non è Cosa Nostra, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Arsenale di Venezia, 2011, repr. p. 473 (erroneously titled “Biglietto da visita”, incompletely dated “1969”).
•	“Hypothesis for an Exhibition”, exhibition catalogue, New York, Dominique Lévy, 2014, repr. p. 26.
•	S. Menegoi, “Andata e/o ritorno”, in Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Galleria Christian Stein, 2017, p. 86, repr. p. 83.
•	I. Bernardi, Giulio Paolini. Opere su carta: un laboratorio gestuale per la percezione dell’immagine (Turin: Prinp Editore, 2017), p. 183, col. repr. p. 184.
•	A .Cortellessa, “Un appuntamento mancato”, in Giulio Paolini / Giorgio de Chirico, edited by Id. (Turin: Nino Aragno editore, 2019), p. 47, col. repr.
•	L. Canova, “Negli abissi del tempo. Giulio Paolini e Giorgio de Chirico”, in Metafisica. Quaderni della Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico 22-23 (Imola: Maretti Editore), 2023, pp. 113-114, col. repr. no. 3 p. 114.
•	S. Smets, “Looking at Latin 1911–1965–2019”, in Jolcel 8 (Ghent), biannual online journal, 2023, pp. 117-118, col. repr. p. 117.
•	V. Trione, “Metafisica/Metafisiche”, in Metafisica/Metafisiche. Modernità e malinconia, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Palazzo Reale (Milan: Electa, 2026), p. 21, not repr.

Entry by Maddalena Disch, 25/09/2026