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Giulio Paolini, 1971
GPO-0231
Pencil on paper
24.4 x 37 cm (book open)
Private collection
Twelve sheets of drawing paper folded into four parts and assembled to create an unbound book are signed and dated by the artist from 1960 to 1971. On the last sheet, the inscription “Giulio Paolini / 1971” corresponds to both the signature of another work from 1971 and the authentication of the work itself.
An indistinct reference to other works, Giulio Paolini announces the idea of an anthological or retrospective work developed between 1971 and 1972, the goal being to evoke other works (his own or by other artists) as the equivalent formulations of a same dimension and conceptual intention.
| 1972 | Turin, Galleria Notizie, Giulio Paolini, from 26 January. |
| 2010 | Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Che fare? Arte povera – Die historischen Jahre, 7 May - 5 September 2010, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 372, repr. p. 205, entry by M. Disch p. 205 (idem in the English edition); in the exhibition guide (Vaduz) cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 33 p. 16, not repr.; exhibited only in Vaduz. |
| • | G. Paolini in Giulio Paolini. Le “opere a venire”, proceedings of the meeting with the artist, Accademia di Belle Arti “Pietro Vannucci”, Perugia, 28 April 1981 (Perugia: 1982), p. 14. |
| • | G. Paolini, “Senza titolo / senza autore”, in Bartleby 1, no. 0 (Prato), January, 2008, p. 6, not repr. |
| • | G. Celant, Giulio Paolini (New York: Sonnabend Press, 1972), pp. 96-97, repr. no. 88 pp. 96-97 (reproduction of the open book); republished in Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, edited by Id. (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2003), p. 324; reprint (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2019). |
| • | I. Calvino, “La squadratura”, in G. Paolini, Idem (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1975), p. X, not repr.; republished in Semiotiche della pittura. I classici. Le ricerche, edited by L. Corrain (Rome: Meltemi editore, 2004), p. 230, not repr.; new edition (Milan: Electa, 2023), p. 12, not repr. |
| • | M. Fagiolo, “Glossario”, in Giulio Paolini (Parma: Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976), p. 29, repr. no. 131 (open book). |
| • | G. Celant, “Giulio Paolini”, in Senza titolo 1974 (Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 1976), p. 261, not repr. |
| • | Giulio Paolini, vol. Figures/Intentions (Villeurbanne: Le Nouveau Musée, 1984), repr. p. 16 (open book). |
| • | F. Poli, in Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Studio Marconi, 1984, n. pag., not repr.; republished as “L’io dell’artista, l’io della pittura”, in Id., Giulio Paolini (Turin: Lindau, 1990), p. 14. |
| • | A. Mammì, I. Panicelli, “Giulio Paolini. Bibliografia”, in Giulio Paolini. La Casa di Lucrezio, exhibition catalogue, Spoleto, Palazzo Rosari Spada (Casalecchio di Reno: Grafis Edizioni, 1984), p. 16, not repr.; republished in Markus Lüpertz, Giulio Paolini: figure, colonne, finestre, exhibition catalogue, Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli, 1986, p. 79, not repr. |
| • | F. Poli, Giulio Paolini, op. cit. (Turin: 1990), pp. 14 (part I: L’io dell’artista, l’io della pittura), 38, 40 (part II: Note di lettura, republished in Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum [Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998], p. 67, not repr.), repr. no. 21 (open book). |
| • | G. Paolini, Locus Solus, vol. I (Genoa: Edizioni della Galleria Locus Solus, 1993), repr. nos. 1 (closed book), 2 (open book). |
| • | M. Dalla Bernardina, “Les autoportraits de Giulio Paolini”, in Ligeia 29-32 (Paris), October 1999 - June 2000, p. 9 (erroneously dated “1973”), not repr. |
| • | Giulio Paolini 1960-1972, op. cit. (Milan: 2003), repr. p. 351 (open and closed book). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 231 p. 239, repr. |
| • | T. Migliore, “Ritratti ‘portratti’. Giulio Paolini e l’identikit dell’artista”, in L’immagine che siamo. Ritratto e soggettività nell’estetica contemporanea, edited by M.G. Di Monte, M. Di Monte and H. de Riedmatten (Rome: Carocci editore, 2014), p. 130, not repr. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 04/05/2026
