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Copia dal vero, 1976
GPO-0321
Copy from Life
Pencil on primed canvas and on reversed canvas
60 x 120.5 cm (three parts 60 x 40 cm each)
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso of the third canvas, lower stretcher bar: "Giulio Paolini / Copia dal vero 1976"
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Acquired in 1998, inventory no. LSK 98.02
Three primed canvases placed close together – the one in the middle is reversed – feature the proportionally reduced image of themselves in the form of a square blackened by pencil, a canvas viewed from the recto, and a white square outlined by pencil marks.
The work concludes a series of variations on the same theme (GPO-0278, GPO-0303, GPO-0306, GPO-0307, GPO-0316).
| 1977 | London, Lisson Gallery, Giulio Paolini, 12 April - 14 May. |
| 1998 | Vaduz, Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung, 10 Jahre Neuerwerbungen der Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, 6 September - 15 November, no catalogue. |
| 2000-01 | Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, opening exhibition of the new venue, 12 November 2000 - 20 May 2001, no catalogue. |
| 2003-04 | Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Arte Povera, February 2003 - March 2004, no catalogue. |
| 2004 | Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Durchleuchtet. Dialog mit der Sammlung, 18 March - 30 May, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 35 no. 53, not repr. |
| 2004 | Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Painterly Approaches, October 2004 - January 2005, no catalogue. |
| 2005 | Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Arte Povera, February - May, no catalogue. |
| 2007 | Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Arte Povera. Aus der Sammlung des Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, 4 May - 14 October, no catalogue. |
| 2010-11 | Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Che fare? Arte povera – Die historischen Jahre, 7 May - 5 September, touring to: Linz, Lentos Kunstmuseum, 18 February - 29 May 2011, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 372, col. repr. pp. 45 (exhibition view in Vaduz), 209, catalogue entry by M. Disch p. 209, referred to in the text by C. Meyer-Stoll p. 16 (idem in the English edition); in the exhibition guide (Vaduz) cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 38 p. 17, not repr. |
| 2012 | Innsbruck, RLB Kunstbrücke, Der Blick. Das Wort. Die Geste, 20 March - 18 May. |
| 2012 | Weimar, Neues Museum, Arte Povera aus der Sammlung des Kunstmuseums Liechtenstein, 28 August - 21 September, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 100, col. repr. p. 69, catalogue entry by M. Disch p. 68. |
| 2015 | Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Schön, euch zu sehen! 160 Werke aus der Sammlung, 13 February - 23 August, no catalogue. |
| • | Il Grande Disegno, exhibition catalogue, Fiesole, Palazzina Mangani (Florence: Fratelli Alinari Editrice, 1983), repr. p. 85 (with incorrect dimensions). |
| • | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, edited by F. Malsch (Vaduz: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, 2003), p. 100, not repr. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 321 p. 330, col. repr. |
| • | The Open Mind. Celebrating 10 Years at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Vaduz-Bern: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and Benteli Verlags AG, 2010), col. repr. pp. 91 (exhibition view Vaduz 2003-04), 124 (exhibition view Vaduz 2005), 160 (exhibition view Vaduz 2007). |
| • | Aus der Sammlung, edited by F. Malsch (Vaduz-Bielefeld: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and Kerber Verlag, 2015), entry by M. Disch p. 148 (taken from the catalogue Che fare?, Vaduz: 2010), col. repr. p. 149. |
| • | E. Franz, “Dialogisches Sehen”, in Electrical network, edited by F. Malsch and C. Meyer-Stoll, vol. Aus der Sammlung (Vaduz: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, 2021), p. 304, col. repr. p. 259. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), repr. pp. 150-151 (exhibition view London 1977). |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 06/05/2026
