Sipario, 2024
GPE-0162
Curtain
Lithograph with original intervention by the artist in variable techniques
Fedrigoni Old Mill
Plate 25 x 25 cm folded, 50 x 50 cm open
Titled and signed on the recto: "Sipario" (bottom centre), "Giulio Paolini" (bottom right)
Autograph numbering on the recto, bottom left
30 in Arabic numerals from 1/30 to 30/30
Each edition is distinguished by a different original intervention by the artist made using a different technique (i.e. collage, pencil and coloured pencils drawing).
Edizioni l'Obliquo, Brescia for the Teatro Franco Parenti, Milan
Grafica Sette Srl e Seven Media, Bagnolo Mella (Brescia)
The print produced by Edizioni l'Obliquo for the Teatro Franco Parenti is a gift to those who made a donation in favour of the Teatro. The production of the edition coincides with the opening of a permanent installation, commissioned from the artist by the Teatro Franco Parenti for the building of the Bagni Misteriosi, on the occasion of the end of the celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of the Milanese theatre (cf. GPO-1178).
Double-sided white card stock folder, with inside pocket, closed format 25.5 x 25.5 cm; cover with titles in red and black (author, title, publisher). Contains a title-page (on the recto the same as the cover, but with a black title, on the verso publisher, printing date, and copyright), the print and the colophon.
Includes information regarding the printer, edition size, type of paper, and technique. Numbering bottom centre.
The lithograph, folded in four, is characterized by the image, doubled specularly, of a hand opening a curtain. The central area is circumscribed by a black frame, which is echoed by an outline in red that delimits the image. From one edition to another, the lithograph is animated by a different original intervention, constituted by a drawing of geometric motifs or a collage of fragments of reproductions on various subjects.
The gesture of the hands invites the gaze into the space of the representation, which is emphasized by the square black outline. Each time the outline contains figures and forms, constellations that are multiplied or dispersed, fragments falling freely, or drawings in expansion: a theatre of apparitions inspired by the artist's iconographic repertoire, a potential container for any image, an ideal space in which to breathe life into the endless possibilities of a vision that is unfolding.
The original collage on which the print is based is documented in the online Catalogue Raisonné of the works on paper at number GPC-2424.
