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Eco, 1976

Archive number

GPO-0341

English title

Echo

Technique

Photo prints

Dimensions

Nine framed parts 23 x 33 cm each, overall dimensions 23 x 311.5 cm

Inscriptions by the artist

Signed, titled, dated, and numbered on the verso of the ninth element: “Giulio Paolini / Eco / 1976 / [edition number]”

Edition details

The work was executed in a numbered edition of three plus one artist’s proof.

Collection

1/3	Private collection
2/3	Collection of the artist
3/3	The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas
A.P.	Private collection, Nice

Description

In each of the nine views of exhibition rooms at times occupied by viewers, four smaller photographs, located in the area corresponding to the median horizontal axis, "echo" some of the details of those same images or of other rooms in the same museum.
When looking at the sequence of photomontages placed close together the row of small images framed by a white border resembles a series of paintings at the viewer's eye level; in some cases they even resemble paintings displayed in those same spaces.
The same theme was also developed in a smaller version from the same year, with the photographic prints applied to the wooden panel (GPO-0339).

1 The reproductions are from the volume by M. Brawne, Il museo oggi. Architettura Restauro Ordinamento (Milan: Edizioni di Comunità, 1965).

Sources

Exhibition views from Michael Brawne, Il museo oggi. Architettura Restauro Ordinamento (Milan: Edizioni di Comunità, 1965).

Exhibitions

1977	London, Lisson Gallery, Giulio Paolini, 12 April - 14 May.
1977	Mannheim, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Giulio Paolini, 31 July - 28 August, not repr.
1978	Naples, Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes, Giulio Paolini, from 9 February, no catalogue; edition 2/3.
1979	Modena, Galleria Civica, L’estetico e il selvaggio. Associazioni, dissociazioni, dissezioni: l’obliquità dell’arte, 19 May - 1 July, repr. n. pag.
1980	Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Fabro, Kounellis, Merz, Paolini. Materialien zu einer Ausstellung, 29 February - 7 April, not repr.
1980	Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Giulio Paolini, 10 April - 26 May, touring to: Oxford, The Museum of Modern Art, 8 June - 20 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 52, not repr. (erroneously documented with another version, cf. GPO-0339); edition 2/3.
1982	Sydney, Power Gallery, University of Sydney, Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves. Explorations in Italian Art, 27 July - 20 August, touring to: Brisbane, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, from 15 September, repr. p. 67.
1999	London, Lisson Gallery, Giulio Paolini. Stanze, 16 April - 22 May.
1999	Geneva, MAMCO Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Giulio Paolini. Salles d’attente, 22 June - 23 December, no catalogue; edition 2/3.
2005	Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Giulio Paolini. Esposizione universale, 23 April - 24 June, touring to: Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Giulio Paolini. Esposizione universale, 1 October 2005 - 8 January 2006, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 14 p. 87, col. repr. n. pag. (exhibition view); edition 2/3.
2013	Dallas, The Rachofsky House, Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, 1 February - 31 October 2013, no catalogue; edition 3/3.
2017	Dallas, The Warehouse, Thinking Out Loud: Notes for An Evolving Collection, 10 February - 30 April, no catalogue; edition 3/3.
2022	Dallas, The Warehouse, Sound as Sculpture, 21 January - 28 May, no catalogue; edition 3/3.
2022-23	Dallas, The Warehouse, Open Storage: 25 Years Collecting, 26 August 2022 - 29 April 2023, no catalogue; edition 3/3.

Bibliography

•	Giulio Paolini. Premio Bolaffi 1980 (Turin: Giulio Bolaffi Editore, 1980), repr. p. 16.
•	M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 341 p. 351, repr.
•	Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), repr. p. 167 (exhibition view Amsterdam 1980).