Eclisse, 1975
GPO-0311
Eclypse
Pencil on primed canvas, reversed canvas
120 x 180 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso, central stretcher bar: "Giulio Paolini / Eclisse 1975"
Private collection
In the room drawn in perspective on a primed canvas – with two “paintings” on the side walls – a reversed canvas simulates the painting situated on the fourth wall of that hypothetical room. Akin to an eclipse, in which a star is hidden from sight by the interposition of a celestial body, the overturned canvas subtracts the painting hypothetically hung on the wall at the back of the drawn room from the viewer’s gaze.
The same theme was developed in three successive variants, numbered in the title and made between 1975 and 1976 (GPO-0311, GPO-0336, GPO-0342). In 1976 the artist reproduced the work in a larger version as well (GPO-0320).
| 1975 | Bologna, Studio G7, Giulio Paolini, from 15 November. |
| 1976 | Milan, Studio Marconi, Giulio Paolini, from 5 February. |
| • | T. Trini, “Paolini. Le sprigioni”, in Studio Marconi 3-4 (Milan), 5 February 1976, repr. p. 5 (rotated by 180 degrees); republished in an enlarged version titled “Come l’immaginario si ribella all’immaginazione”, in Data 20 (Milan), March-April, 1976, repr. p. 89. |
| • | M. Fagiolo, “Glossario”, in Giulio Paolini (Parma: Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976), p. 24, repr. no. 198. |
| • | I. Calvino, “Equarrissage. Giulio Paolini”, in Opus International 59 (Paris), May, 1976, repr. p. 41; French translation of the essay published in G. Paolini, Idem (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1975), not repr. |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Mannheim, Mannheimer Kunstverein, 1977, commentary by P. Maenz p. 54, repr. p. 55. |
| • | Schijnbare tegenstellingen. Zestien Italiaanse Kunstenaars, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 1977, repr. no. 48 p. 36 (with incorrect caption). |
| • | W.M. Faust, “Et quid amabo: Notizen zu Arbeiten von Giulio Paolini”, in Giulio Paolini. Del bello intelligibile, exhibition catalogue, Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1982, p. 17, repr. |
| • | G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. p. 174. |
| • | G. Celant, Giulio Paolini. Tra Telaio e Paolini (Turin: Gruppo GFT, 1988), repr. p. 7. |
| • | F. Poli, Giulio Paolini (Turin: Lindau, 1990), repr. no. 27. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998), repr. p. 248. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Premio Internazionale Koinè 2000 alla carriera, exhibition catalogue, Verona, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti (Milan: Electa, 2001), repr. p. 70. |
| • | A. Zevi, Peripezie del dopoguerra nell’arte italiana (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2005), p. 363 (in general on the works titled Eclisse), not repr. |
| • | G. Paolini, Quattro passi. Nel museo senza muse (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2006), repr. p. 67. |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Bologna, Studio G7 (Bologna: Damiani editore, 2008), repr. p. 76 (exhibition view Bologna 1975). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 311 p. 320, 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. 144, repr. p. 139. |
