Studio per “Rialto”, 1990
GPO-0669
Study for “Rialto”
Pencil on paper, drawing pin and collage on lithographic print
Framed collage 90.5 x 74.5 cm, overall dimensions 185 x 260 cm
Signed and dated on the recto of the framed element, lower centre: “Giulio Paolini (maggio 1990)”
Private collection, Lausanne
The framed collage harkens back to a work made during the same period entitled Rialto (GPO-0668), in which two primed canvases, arranged so that one is seen from the recto and the other from the verso, and a men's ceremonial outfit are symbolically held in balance by the gaze – both the author’s and our own – which attempts to "see" the presumed painting announced by the occasion for its exhibition. In the collage, the point of contact between the image of the two canvases coincides with the drawing pin stuck into the area corresponding to the artist's eye in the drawn portrait. On the wall scattered all around the framed element are seven drawings of rectangles, cut by the margins of the sheets.
| 1990 | Venice, Studio d’Arte Barnabò, Giulio Paolini. Rialto, May-June, repr. p. 9. |
| 1993 | Pully (Lausanne), FAE Musée d’art contemporain, A la découverte... de collections romandes I, 19 February - 27 June, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 45, repr. p. 13. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 669 p. 683, repr. |
