Promemoria, 2016-17
GPC-1571
Reminder
Collage on paper
Nine parts 40 x 28 cm each
Titled, signed, and dated on the verso of the ninth element, centre: “Pro memoria / Giulio Paolini / 2016-17”
Noire Gallery, Turin
• First element: portrait of Luigi Pirandello, unknown source.
• Second element: portrait of Raymond Roussel taken by Bernhard Wagner, 1910; reproduction from François Caradec, Vie de Raymond Roussel (1977-1933) (Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert éditeur, 1972), p. 96 (“Raymond Roussel, Carlsbad, 1910”).
• Third element: portrait of Marcel Duchamp, unknown source.
• Fourth element: portrait of Lucio Fontana, unknown source.
• Fifth element: portrait of Fausto Melotti, unknown source.
• Sixth element: Giorgio de Chirico, Autoritratto in costume, 1953, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm, private collection.
• Seventh element: portrait of Italo Calvino, unknown source.
• Eighth element: portrait of Salvador Dalí, unknown source and Salvador Dalí, Ma femme nue regardant son propre corps devenir marche, trois vertèbres d’une colonne, ciel et architecture, 1945, oil on wood, 61 x 52 cm, private collection.
• Ninth element: portrait of Fernando Pessoa, unknown source.
• Background images: view of exhibition rooms of the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin taken by Paolo Pellion, 2010.
| 2019 | Turin, Noire Gallery, Giulio Paolini. Promemoria, 12 April - 10 June. |
| • | Giulio Paolini / Giorgio de Chirico, edited by A. Cortellessa (Turin: Nino Aragno editore, 2019), col. repr. pp. 89, 90 (detail). |
| • | G. Paolini, “A come Accademia”, in Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), col. repr. p. 18 (detail). |
