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Apollo e la Sibilla Cumana, 1976
GPO-0331
Apollo and the Cumean Sibyl
Photo emulsion on canvas
70 x 140 cm (two parts 70 x 70 cm each)
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso of one of the two canvases, upper stretcher bar: “Giulio Paolini / Apollo e la Sibilla Cumana / 1976”
Lorenzo and Marilena Bonomo Collection
The two photographic canvases arranged close together reproduce the painting by Claude Lorrain entitled Apollon et la Sibylle de Cumes (1665) and the enlargement of the figure of Apollo, respectively, so that the latter indicates the subject of the representation itself, as if to raise the curtain on the mythological scene he pertains to.
Claude Lorrain, Bord de mer avec Apollon et la Sibylle de Cumes, 1665, oil on canvas, 100 x 134 cm, private collection, Zurich.
| 1976 | Milan, Galleria Blu, L’arte e il suo doppio. Balla, Picabia, Man Ray, Melotti, Dorazio, Paolini, from 15 November, repr. |
| 1977 | Mannheim, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Giulio Paolini, 31 July - 28 August, not repr. |
| 1984 | Spoleto, Palazzo Rosari Spada, XXVII Festival dei Due Mondi, Giulio Paolini. Casa di Lucrezio, 27 June - 16 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 3 p. 30 (erroneously dated “1976-77”), repr. pp. 38-39. |
| 1996 | Rome, French Academy, Villa Medici, Giulio Paolini. Correspondances, 13 March - 28 April, cat. no. 7 (erroneously dated “1977”), repr., referred to in the text by M. Fagiolo Dell’Arco p. 32. |
| 2001 | Siena, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Il dono. Offerta ospitalità insidia, 3 June - 23 September, cited in the checklist of exhibited works pp. 508-509 (erroneously dated “1977”), repr. pp. 484-485, referred to in the text by G. Maraniello p. 70. |
| • | Der Traum des Orpheus. Mythologie in der italienischen Gegenwartskunst 1967 bis 1984, exhibition catalogue, Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 1984, repr. p. 82. |
| • | “Giulio Paolini. Casa di Lucrezio, 1981-1984”, in A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu 5, no. 10-11 (Rome), July, 1984, repr. p. 23 (exhibition view Spoleto 1984). |
| • | Risonanze #2. Giulio Paolini & Fabio Vacchi, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Spazio Risonanze, Auditorium Parco della Musica (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2008), repr. p. 61 (exhibition view Rome 1996). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 331 p. 340, repr. |
| • | Paolo Mussat Sartor Luoghi d’arte e di artisti. 1968-2008 (Zurich: JPR|Ringier, 2008), repr. n. pag. (exhibition view Rome 1996). |
| • | … but, where is Bari? Percorso nell'arte contemporanea. La Galleria Bonomo dal 1971 / A Journey in contemporary art. The Bonomo Gallery since 1971 (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 2010), repr. p. 38 (erroneously dated "1977"). |
| • | Imaginae 1960-1990, exhibition catalogue, Asti, Fondo Giov-Anna Piras, 2011, repr. n. pag. (exhibition view Rome 1996). |
| • | Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), repr. pp. 153 (exhibition view Mannheim 1977), 224-225 (exhibition view Rome 1996). |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 07/05/2026
