Antologia (23/4/1974), 1974
GPO-0267
Anthology (23/4/1974)
Reversed canvas and photographic reproduction applied to a primed canvas
80 x 120 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso, upper stretcher bar, left: "Giulio Paolini / Antologia (23/4/1974)"
Private collection
Several partially folded colour photographs reproducing skies – blue and at sunset – are held down between an overturned canvas and a larger primed one, viewed from the recto. The “anthology” of images alludes to the search for a possible subject in the "painting" evoked by the two large canvases, which on their part suggest a 360-degree turn that makes it possible to see all the paintings imaginable between the recto and the verso of a painting.
The same theme was developed in two other variants from the same year (GPO-0268, GPO-0269), along with which it is part of a series of eleven works with the same title (at times followed by a different date), made between 1973 and 1974 (GPO-0258, GPO-0259, GPO-0260, GPO-0262, GPO-0263, from GPO-0267 to GPO-0270, GPO-0273, GPO-0274).
| 2017 | New York, Lévy Gorvy, After the Future: The Postwar Italian Avant-Garde, 6 July - 18 August. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 267 p. 278, col. repr. |
