La Vue, 1963-69

Archive number

GPO-0027

Technique

Book pages mounted on plywood panel

Dimensions

210 x 210 cm

Inscriptions by the artist

Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, bottom right: “ “La Vue” / Giulio Paolini 1963-69”

Collection

Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini, Turin

Acquisitions and loans

Gift of the artist, 25 October 2012, archive no. GPO-0027

Description

The work comprises the 150 pages of Raymond Roussel's La Vue (1904), arranged in a pre-established order and at regular intervals on a masonite panel.
The same theme was developed in a variant from the same year, which is distinguished by the different source of the pages, taken from the collection of short stories titled Instantanés by French writer Alain Robbe-Grillet (GPO-0164).

Sources

Raymond Roussel, La Vue (Paris: Éditions Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1963).

Bibliography

•	L. Busine, Les Doublures de Giulio Paolini (Brussels: Édition Lebeer-Hossmann, 1986), p. 40, repr. p. 30 (the caption is on p. 32, erroneously dated “1963”).
•	Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1986, vol. 1, repr. p. 38 (erroneously dated “1963”).
•	Literatur im Raum, exhibition catalogue, Basel, Galerie Fina Bitterlin, 1986, repr. n. pag. (erroneously dated “1963”).
•	C. Owens, "Giulio Paolini", in Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, 1987, repr. no. 3 (erroneously dated “1963”).
•	G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. p. 18 (erroneously dated “1963”).
•	E. Volpato, "Metamorfosi del vuoto: 1960-2006", in L’immagine del vuoto. Una linea di ricerca nell’arte in Italia 1958-2006, exhibition catalogue, Lugano, Museo Cantonale d’Arte (Milan: Skira editore, 2006), p. 86, repr. p. 87 (erroneously dated “1963”).
•	M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 27 p. 66, repr. (erroneously dated “1963”).
•	P. Repetto, “Oltre il visibile”, in Giulio Paolini. O.D.E., exhibition catalogue, Monforte d’Alba (Cuneo), Castello di Perno (Alba: Fondazione Mancini Carini, 2022), pp. 37-38, col. repr. p. 48 no. 11.

Entry by Maddalena Disch, 30/01/2026