Ni le soleil, ni la mort... (tutte le opere esposte), 1998
GPO-0805
Ni le soleil, ni la mort... (All the Works Exhibited)
Pencil and collage on paper
Nine framed parts 65 x 50 cm each, overall dimensions 200 x 155 cm
Signed, titled and dated on the recto of the fifth element, lower centre: “Giulio Paolini / (tutte le opere esposte) / Graz, apr. 1998”
Collection of the artist
The work conceived for the solo exhibition in Graz in 1998 consists of nine framed elements arranged close together. In the middle is a portrait drawn by the artist with a drawing pin in the area corresponding to the eye, while the eight peripheral frames feature several rectangles outlined at random and some typescript pages. The “catalogue” of rectangles acts as a virtual index of the works exhibited, while the pages of text refer to the author’s reflections on the Graz exhibition itself.1
1 Cf. G. Paolini, “Koh-I-Noor”, in Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998), pp. 161-180.
• Figure from a portrait of Giulio Paolini taken by Gérard Amsellem, 1983.
• Title from François de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes, 26 (“Le soleil [sic] ni la mort ne se peuvent regarder fixement”).
| 1998 | Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum, Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, 4 April - 31 May, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 15 p. 181, not repr. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 805 p. 826, col. repr. |
