Senza titolo (Spoleto 3/7/1978), 1978
GPO-0388
Untitled (Spoleto 3/7/1978)
Collage on primed canvas
50 x 68 cm
Signed and dated on the verso, lower stretcher bar, centre: “Giulio Paolini Spoleto 3/7/1978”
Private collection, London
The hand associated with the torn sheet pulls back the "curtain" on an eighteenth-century Arcadian scene – illustrated in the colour reproduction at the centre of the oval canvas – which in turn is theatre of itself, to such extent that inside it duplicates its own image.
The work is part of a group of oval canvases – undocumented and whose whereabouts are unknown – that in the solo show in Spoleto in 1978 accompanied the main work made for that occasion (GPO-0389).
• Claude Lorrain, Vue de Delphe avec procession, oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm, Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome.
• Image of the hand from Opere di G. G. Winckelmann, prima edizione italiana completa, vol. XIII (Prato: Fratelli Giachetti, 1830-34), plate XXXII, no. 88.
| 1978 | Spoleto, Vecchia Torre, Giulio Paolini. Dodici vedute da una vecchia torre a Spoleto, from 3 July. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 388 p. 394, col. repr. |
