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Isfahan, 1974
GPO-0271
Photo emulsion on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso, lower stretcher bar, centre: “Giulio Paolini / Isfahan 1974”
Private collection, Turin
The photographic canvas reproduces a photomontage in which the vanishing point of the image – a view of the courtyard of the Friday Mosque in Isfahan – is hidden by a smaller copy of the same image.
By means of a mise-en-abîme, the work foreshadows the central theme of the artist's production around the mid-1970s: the doubling or the duplication that leads the gaze to question not just itself but also the value of the image and of the representation as such.
View of the mosque from the advertising for the airline Iran Air, in L’Europeo 30, nos. 1-2, 10 January 1974, p. 75.
| • | Giulio Paolini. “Tutto qui”, exhibition catalogue, Ravenna, Pinacoteca Comunale, Loggetta Lombardesca (Ravenna: Agenzia Editoriale Essegi, 1985), repr. no. 22. |
| • | G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. p. 170. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 271 p. 282, repr. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 06/05/2026
