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Luogo comune (Le Monde invisible), 1973-89
GPO-0658
Photographic reproductions, plexiglas sheet, chair
Dismantled work
On the occasion of the solo show at Villa delle Rose in Bologna in 1990, Paolini reformulated a new version of the situation constituting the print edition entitled Hotel Continental (Le Monde invisible), made in 1973 (GPE-0011). In this case, the colour reproduction of René Magritte's painting Le Monde invisible (1954) is arranged on the ground under a large plexiglas sheet and is half-hidden by a crumpled and undecipherable photographic enlargement, crushed by the weight of a fallen chair in the area corresponding to the stone portrayed in the painting by Magritte.
René Magritte, Le Monde invisible, 1954, oil on canvas, 195 x 130 cm, The Menil Collection, Houston.
| 1990 | Bologna, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Villa delle Rose, Giulio Paolini. Hotel de l’Univers, 27 May - 29 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 13 p. 17, repr. pp. 49, 55 (exhibition views). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 658 p. 674, repr. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 01/06/2026
