Rosa dei venti, 1992
GPO-0696
Wind Rose
Dressmaker mannequin, collage on coloured paper, photo print, plexiglas sheets
Six collages and six plexiglas sheets 50 x 50 cm each, photo print 50 x 50 cm, overall dimensions 170 x 190 x 150 cm
Dismantled work
A black tailors dummy in an upside-down position is surrounded on the ground by reflectors applied to sheets of coloured paper and pointing towards the centre, as if to blind the gaze of the upside-down "figure" (the images are held down under plexiglas sheets which are arranged so that they are staggered). The tripod instead holds a rolled up photographic print of the sky that, akin to "natural" light, offsets the artificial light of the reflectors.
The work was conceived for the solo exhibition at the Galerie Yvon Lambert in Paris in November 1992, where the coloured sheets and the plexiglas sheets alluded to the range of the spectrum and to the transparent sheets used in the main work on display (Contemplator enim, 1992, GPO-0694).
The same theme was developed in a version from the same year, with primed canvases instead of sheets (GPO-0695).
| 1992 | Paris, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Giulio Paolini, 28 November - 24 December. |
| 2016 | London, Repetto Gallery, Metamorphosis: the Alchemists of Matter. A Point of View on Arte Povera, 5 October - 2 November, col. repr. p. 47. |
| • | D. Scudero, “È il mondo che gira”, in Opening 22 (Rome), March, 1994, repr. n. pag. (exhibition view Paris 1992). |
| • | L. Marucci, “Giulio Paolini”, in Juliet Art Magazine 15, no. 67 (Trieste), April, 1994, repr. p. 33 (exhibition view Paris 1992). |
| • | M. Bouisset, Arte Povera (Paris: Éditions du Regard, 1994), repr. p. 110 (exhibition view Paris 1992). |
| • | D. von Drathen, “Giulio Paolini. Der blinde Blick des Sehers”, in Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst 33, no. 7 (Munich: Weltkunst-Bruckmann Verlag, 1996), repr. p. 13. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 696 p. 711, col. repr. (exhibition view Paris 1992). |
