Intervallo (l’Androgino), 1986
GPE-0055
Interval (The Androgyne)
Etching and aquatint, crumpled photographic reproduction
Fabriano Tiepolo
Etching and aquatint plate 15.5 x 30 cm, crumpled reproduction Ø 5 cm
15.5 x 18.5 x 12 cm
Signed on the colophon included with the print: “Giulio Paolini”
Autograph numbering on the colophon included with the print
30 in Arabic numerals from 1/30 to 30/30
5 in Roman numerals from I/V to V/V
Each edition is distinguished by the different subject of the crumpled photographic reproduction. The various types of images – prevalently naturalistic ones – were chosen by the publisher.
Exit Edizioni, Lugo (Ravenna)
Stamperia Bentivoglio, Bologna
The multiple is included in the production of multiplied art by Exit Edizioni, Lugo (Ravenna), founded in 1976 and directed until 2002 by Alvaro Beccatini. The catalogue of publications includes books, multiples, and graphic editions by contemporary artists created in close collaboration with the authors.
Havana card stock box, 16 x 16 x 4 cm, lid with titles in black (author and title; publisher on the front flap). Contains the folded print and a sheet with the colophon and the design of the installed work.
Includes information regarding the printing technique, measurements, type of paper, date and place of printing (June 1986, Bologna), printer, and edition size. Numbering and signature at the bottom.
The black card folded in the middle bears the reproduction, on either end, of the two halves of a reproduction of the Barberini Faun. In the installed work, the card serves as a set design for the mysterious crumpled up image, located in the foreground in a central position.
The bisected Faun loses his original sexual connotation and becomes androgynous – as the title suggests – since the two distinct images evoke both sexes. The disassembled figure, as well as the crumpled up image, both keep out of view an integral image that we can only speculate about. In the words of the artist: “Intervallo is the distance that separates the two 'moments' when the figure comes apart. But if we look closely, there are two intervals: the first one, which is visible, consists of the short distance that separates the two halves of the same statue [...]; the second one, whether virtual or imaginary, is the entire circumference of our planet [...] through which the two halves could be rejoined”.1
The theme titled Intervallo was developed in 1984-86, in a group of sculptures made up of two halves of a plaster cast installed on two opposite walls (GPO-0525, GPO-0542, GPO-0549, GPO-0571), as well as in several studies on paper (GPC-0587, GPC-0723, GPC-0724).
1 G. Paolini in an unpublished passage of an interview with M. Belpoliti that took place in 1999, in reference to the group of works having the same title made from plaster casts (cf. GPO-0525). Typescript held in the artist’s archive.
Engraving after the Barberini Faun, 220 BC, marble, h 215 cm, Glyptothek, Munich.
| 1989 | Turin, Salone del Libro, Impressions graphiques. Progetti e collaborazioni editoriali di Giulio Paolini, 12-18 May, cat. no. 12 (section “Edizioni a tiratura numerata”), not repr. |
| 1992 | Bonn, Bonner Kunstverein, Giulio Paolini. Impressions graphiques. Das graphische Werk 1967-1992, 24 February - 29 March (catalogue Impressions graphiques. L’opera grafica 1967-1992 di Giulio Paolini [Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1992], cat. no. 56). |
| 1993 | Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Giulio Paolini. Impressions graphiques. Das druckgraphische Werk 1967-1992, 16 January - 7 March (catalogue Impressions graphiques. L’opera grafica 1967-1992 di Giulio Paolini [Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1992], cat. no. 56). |
| 1995 | Lisbon, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian / Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Giulio Paolini. Impressions graphiques. Múltiplos e Obra Gráfica 1969-1995, 16 March - 28 May, not repr. in the exhibition brochure (catalogue Impressions graphiques. L’opera grafica 1967-1992 di Giulio Paolini [Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1992], cat. no. 56). |
| 1996 | Apolda, Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, Giulio Paolini. Impressions graphiques, 27 September - 27 October (catalogue Impressions graphiques. L’opera grafica 1967-1992 di Giulio Paolini [Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1992], cat. no. 56). |
| 1997 | Göppingen, Kunsthalle, Giulio Paolini. Impressions graphiques. Das graphische Druckwerk 1967-1995, 9 March - 13 April (catalogue Impressions graphiques. L’opera grafica 1967-1992 di Giulio Paolini [Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1992], cat. no. 56). |
| 2000 | Turin, Archivio di Stato, Tirannicidi II-III: la Stampa e la Fotografia, 6 September - 15 October. |
| 2001 | Milan, Association Jacqueline Vodoz et Bruno Danese, Impressions Graphiques. L’opera grafica di Giulio Paolini, 1967-2000, 17 May - 22 June, not repr. |
| 2002 | Modena, Biblioteca civica d’arte Luigi Poletti, Giulio Paolini. Pagine, 20 September - 23 November, col. repr. pp. 60-61 (caption p. 92). |
| 2004 | Bologna, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Ritratto dell’editore come artista. I libri e la grafica di Alvaro Beccatini, 8 September - 17 October, no catalogue. |
| 2005 | Lugo (Ravenna), Pescherie della Rocca, Exit. Alvaro Becattini, 30 April - 15 May, col. repr. p. 26. |
| 2006 | Turin, Galleria “èArte”, Paolini, Penone, Pistoletto, 7 February - 18 March. |
| 2006 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Libri Books Bücher, 29 April - 30 July, no catalogue. |
| 2011 | Bologna, Aula Magna della Biblioteca Universitaria, Libro / Opera. Viaggio nelle pagine d'artista. La collezione di Danilo Montanari, 16 September - 12 October, col. repr. p. 149. |
| • | Impressions graphiques. L’opera grafica 1967-1992 di Giulio Paolini (Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1992), cat. no. 56, col. repr. |
