No comment, 1991
GPO-0682
Overhead projector, xerox reproduction on acetate, photographic reproduction, plinth
Overhead projector 74 x 36 x 36 cm, overall dimensions variable
Collection of the artist
Each time the work is presented anew, the plan must be updated in accordance with the display space. Similarly, each time the height of the plinth depends on the height and the situation of the window. It will have to be such that the projection is approximately at the viewer's eye level (as well as halfway up the window).
On the glass surface of an overhead projector a plan of the room where the work is on display indicates the position of the projector itself and overlaps the colour image of a portion of the sky. The projector, set down on a dark plinth or other support, is placed before a window turned towards the outdoors, so that the projection of the drawing and of the image are dispersed in the void.
With a double tautology, the work proposes the same situation in the exhibition space where it is situated, and it projects the image of the sky towards a glimpse of the real sky.
| 1991 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Anteprima 1. Giulio Paolini, 4 May - 30 June, repr. p. 14, referred to in the text by G. Verzotti p. 9. |
| 2020-21 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Giulio Paolini. Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu, 15 October 2020 - 16 May 2021, vol. 1: cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 78, col. repr. pp. 30-31 (detail), 32-33, 54 (exhibition views), referred to in the text by M. Beccaria p. 58. |
| • | M. Bertoni, “All’incrocio di due sguardi infiniti. La scrittura e il modello. Per Giulio Paolini”, in Id., Tempi e forme. Una ricerca sulle arti visive contemporanee (Turin: Hopefulmonster editore, 1998), p. 228, repr. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 682 p. 696, col. repr. (exhibition view Rivoli 1991). |
