Antologia (15/11/1973), 1973
GPO-0258
Anthology (15/11/1973)
Photo prints, pencil inscription on paper, plexiglas sheet
Six photo prints 18 x 24 cm each, sheet with inscription and plexiglas sheet 20 x 30 cm each, overall dimensions 5 x 45 x 30 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on a blank sheet: “Giulio Paolini / Antologia / (15/11/1973)”
Private collection, courtesy Giò Marconi, Milan
The photographs must not be placed directly on the support surface of the plinth, but rather slightly elevated by a piece of card stock or other stiff material.
Six photographs of previous works by the artist,1 collected in random order on a plinth, constitute a "personal anthology", authenticated by the signature and the date written in pencil on a blank sheet of paper held down on top of the photographs by a plexiglas sheet. The date corresponds to the opening day of Paolini’s first retrospective exhibition at the Studio Marconi in Milan.2
The title (sometimes followed by a variable date) was the first in a series of eleven works made between 1973 and 1974, each of which cites an anthology of one or more works (GPO-0258, GPO-0259, GPO-0260, GPO-0262, GPO-0263, from GPO-0267 to GPO-0270, GPO-0273, GPO-0274).
1 The photographs reproduce Senza titolo, 1961 (GPO-0008); Senza titolo, 1963 (GPO-0025); Zero, 1966 (GPO-0103), Decima musa, 1966 (GPO-0111); Una visita alla casa di Raffaello, 1968 (GPO-0180), and one edition from the series of the Disegni, 1964 (GPC-0017).
2 In the subsequent presentation of the work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1974, Paolini changed the date to the opening day of the new exhibition.
| 1973 | Milan, Studio Marconi, Paolini: opere 1961/73, from 15 November, not repr. |
| 1974 | New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Projects: Giulio Paolini, 21 March - 14 April, no catalogue. |
| 1997 | Cortina d’Ampezzo, Galleria Civica; Belluno, Palazzo Crepadona, Arte Povera e dintorni, 1 August - 21 September, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 94, repr. p. 54. |
| • | Studio Marconi 1966/76. Dieci anni in Italia / Ten years in Italy (Milan: Studio Marconi, 1976), repr. p. 83 (incompletely titled “Antologia”). |
| • | Giulio Paolini. “Una collezione ’60/’80” (Milan: Studio Marconi, 1990), repr. p. 109 (with incorrect date in the title). |
| • | Autobiografia di una galleria. Lo Studio Marconi 1965/1992 (Milan: Skira editore, 2004), repr. p. 101 (with incorrect date in the title). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 258 p. 270, repr. |
| • | E. Volpato, “Iconografie della malinconia”, in Collezioni. Volume terzo: Allestimento 2011-2013, edited by D. Eccher (Turin: GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea and Umberto Allemandi & C., 2012), pp. 211-212, not repr. |
| • | R. Venturi, “Fare schermo all’immagine. Su Unisono di Giulio Paolini”, in E. Franz et al., Giulio Paolini. Vedo e non vedo. In tema 1 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2014), p. 124, repr. p. 121. |
