Antologia (12/7/1974), 1974
GPO-0269
Anthology (12/7/1974)
Reversed canvas and unstretched canvas applied to a primed canvas
120 x 180 cm
Signed, titled, dated on the verso, upper stretcher bar, left: “Giulio Paolini / Antologia (12/7/1974)”
Private collection, Foligno
The work consists of an unstretched, primed canvas that has been unnailed and folded, held between two canvases of different formats placed one against the other, one viewed from the recto, the other from the verso.
The same theme was developed in two other variants from the same year (GPO-0267, GPO-0268), 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).
| 1977 | São Paulo, Pavilhão Armando de Arruda Pereira, Parque Ibirapuera, XIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, 1 October - 18 December, repr. p. 366. |
| 2001 | Belvedere italiano. Linee di tendenza nell’arte contemporanea 1945-2001, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 19 June - 22 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 140, col. repr. p. 123. |
| 2012 | Castelbasso (Teramo), Fondazione Malvina Menegaz per le Arti e le Culture, Attraverso l'arte del '900 italiano: Pop Art, Arte Povera e tendenze del Contemporaneo, 17 March - 6 May, repr. p. 246, referred to in the entry by P. De Donno p. 246. |
| • | Catalogo dell’arte moderna italiana, vol. 20 (Milan: Giorgio Mondadori & Associati editori, 1985), repr. p. 390. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 269 p. 280, col. repr. |
