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Triade, 1975
GPO-0302
Triad
Pencil on primed canvas
120 x 240 cm (three parts 120 x 80 cm each)
Private collection, Turin
Three canvases placed close together at short intervals from each other feature the perspective of a room, drawn in pencil, with three smaller rectangles on the rear wall of that virtual room.
In the artist's own words: "The painting which duplicates its own image within itself opens up to the dilemma of its own material identity: what is and whether or not there is a body of the work".1
1 G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2003), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 302 p. 312.
| 1975 | Rome, Galleria D’Alessandro-Ferranti, Giulio Paolini, from 11 October. |
| 1977 | London, Lisson Gallery, Giulio Paolini, 12 April - 14 May. |
| 1977 | Dublin, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art; National Museum of Ireland, Rosc ’77: The Poetry of Vision, 20 August - 30 October, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 96, repr. p. 210. |
| 2013-14 | Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Anni 70. Arte a Roma, 17 December 2013 - 2 March 2014, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 317, repr. pp. 158, 159 (exhibition view Rome 1975), referred to in the text by D. Lancioni p. 121. |
| • | G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2003), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), vol. 1, cat. no. 302 p. 312. |
| • | Giulio Paolini (Parma: Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976), repr. no. 185 (exhibition view Rome 1975, visible on the left). |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Premio Bolaffi 1980 (Turin: Giulio Bolaffi Editore, 1980), repr. p. 13. |
| • | Identité Italienne. L’art en Italie depuis 1959, edited by G. Celant (Paris-Florence: Centre Georges Pompidou and Centro Di, 1981), repr. p. 489 (exhibition view Rome 1975). |
| • | Thoughts and Action. Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, Bruce MacLean, Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Tokyo, The Japan Foundation, The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, The Laforet Museum (Tokyo: Flex Co. Ltd, 1982), repr. p. 110. |
| • | F. Poli, Giulio Paolini (Turin: Lindau, 1990), repr. no. 87. |
| • | Storia moderna dell’arte in Italia. Manifesti, polemiche, documenti, vol. III: Tra Neorealismo ed anni Novanta 1945-1990, edited by P. Barocchi (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1992), repr. no. 103 (exhibition view Rome 1975). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 302 p. 312, repr. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), repr. pp. 145 (exhibition view Rome 1975), 150-151 (exhibition view London 1977). |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 07/05/2026
