1/25/71, 1965-71
GPO-0229
Photo emulsion on canvas
Two parts 80 x 90 cm each, overall dimensions 80 x 182 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso of the first canvas, upper stretcher bar, left: “Giulio Paolini (1/25/71) / 1965-1971”
MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
Acquired in 2006, inventory no. 13672
The two canvases must be displayed with a distance of 2-3 cm between them.
The two photographic canvases at a short distance from each other are a sequence of two details from the same negative used for the work entitled 1/25 (1965, GPO-0080).
The artist explains: “Just as in Giulio Paolini [1971, GPO-0231] the transcription of the signatures and the dates is none other than the repetition of pre-existing signatures and dates, here I place myself so that I am in pursuit of that someone I was once before and that I still am".1
1 G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2005), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 229 p. 238.
| 1992 | New York, Stein Gladstone Gallery, Arte Povera: Early Works, 28 March - 30 May (erroneously dated "1965"). |
| 2011 | Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Arte in Italia dopo la fotografia 1850-2000, 21 December 2011 - 4 March 2012, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 320, col. repr. p. 274. |
| 2016-17 | New York, Center for Italian Modern Art, Giorgio de Chirico – Giulio Paolini / Giulio Paolini – Giorgio de Chirico, 14 October 2016 - 24 June 2017, col. repr. p. 29. |
| • | G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2005), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 229 p. 238. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 229 p. 238, repr. |
| • | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna & MAXXI. Le Collezioni 1958-2008, vol. 2, edited by S. Frezzotti, C. Italiano and A. Rorro (Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2009), p. 502 catalogue entry by A. Rorro, repr. |
| • | Collezione Christian Stein. Una storia dell'arte italiana / A History of Italian Art (Valencia-Lugano-Milan: IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Museo Cantonale d'Arte and Mondadori Electa, 2010), col. repr. p. 318 (flipped horizontally, exhibition view New York 1992). |
| • | A. Russo, “Fotografie e neoavanguardie a Roma negli anni Settanta (circa)”, in Anni 70. Arte a Roma, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome: Iacobelli Editore, 2013), p. 78, repr. p. 80. |
| • | MAXXI Arte. Catalogo delle collezioni, edited by B. Pietromarchi (Rome-Macerata: MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo and Quodlibet, 2017), p. 237, col. repr. p. 238. |
