“Vedo” (15 luglio 1969), 1971

This collage on canvas haphazardly combines the torn sheets of drawing paper on which, on 15 July 1969, Paolini "deciphered" his visual field (cf. GPO-0188) and on which, a few months later, while they were on display at the “Biennale de Paris”, an anonymous visitor vandalized them by drawing on them. “The sheets that originally provided an abstract transcription of the phenomenon of vision now record an event that actually took place within the dimension of a 'painting'”,1 Paolini remarks.

1 G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2001), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 209 p. 220.