Retroscena (“Una rosa amarilla”), 2018-19

Archive number

GPO-1072

English title

Backstage (”A Yellow Rose”)

Technique

Pencil and collage on paper in plexiglas cases

Dimensions

Nine plexiglas cases 70 x 100 cm each, overall dimensions 220 x 310 cm

Collection

Private collection, Turin

Sources

• Reversed canvas: Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Trompe l'œil. Bagsiden af et indrammet maleri, c. 1668-72, oil on canvas, 66.4 x 87 cm, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.
• Title from Jorge Luis Borges, Una rosa amarilla (1960), in Antología personal (Buenos Aires: Sur, 1961).

Exhibitions

2019	Paris, Galerie Marian Goodman, Giulio Paolini, 15 March - 11 May.

Entry by Maddalena Disch, 06/05/2026