Belvedere, 1990
GPO-0667
Collage on blue tempera card stock
Four framed parts 70 x 70 cm each, overall dimensions 200 x 290 cm
Private collection, Naples
On a long wall the installation can be farther apart, while on a short wall it must be close together.
The astral iconography of the four collages on blue cardstock, distributed across the wall in a tilted position and in random order, is dominated by the cut-out figure of the sleeping Narcissus – from Echo and Narcissus, ca. 1630 by Nicolas Poussin – who in the collage in the middle is lying on the upper margin of a sphere made up of an ensemble of planets.
This work is part of a group of works with the same title, made between 1990 and 1996, whose common denominator is a figure located in either an elevated or a central position – in a "belvedere", as the title suggests – and correlated with one or more astral spheres, understood to be the symbolic model of incomparable perfection (cf. GPO-0665, GPO-0666, GPO-0679, GPO-0698, GPO-0700, GPO-0714, GPO-0715, GPO-0776).
Nicolas Poussin, Écho et Narcisse, c. 1630, oil on canvas, 74 x 100 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
| 1990 | Rome, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Nuovi lavori, May. |
| • | Italie à la FIAC 1992 (Rome: Edisi Edizioni Sistema Italia, 1992), col. repr. p. 48 (exhibition view Rome 1990). |
| • | Italia 2000. Arte e sistema dell’Arte, edited by A. Bonito Oliva (Madrid-Milan: ARCO Madrid and Giampaolo Prearo Editore, 2000), col. repr. p. 67 (exhibition view Rome 1990). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 667 p. 681, col. repr. |
