Dinokrates, 1984
GPO-0518
Photo prints, glass sheets, fractured plaster cast
Nine photo prints and nine glass sheets 125 x 125 cm each, overall perimetral dimensions 375 x 375 cm
The Olnick Spanu Collection, New York
The plaster cast of the shaft of a grooved column is exploded on the assemblage of nine photographs placed close together and held down by the same number of glass sheets that are slightly staggered and overlapped. The images reproduce a drawing of Doric columns impressed over an etching representing Mount Athos turned into a colossal statue of Alexander the Great, based on the famous project of the ancient Greek architect Dinocrates of Rhodes. The central photograph reproduces the ten letters that make up the name of the architect, arranged in a circle corresponding to each of the ten columns.
The work harkens back to the theme of a homonymous work made in 1982, which was later dismembered (cf. GPO-0479).
Engraving from Daidalos 4 (Berlin), June, 1982, p. 11.
| 1984-85 | Berlin, Martin-Gropius Bau, Idee Prozess Ergebnis. Die Reparatur und Rekonstruktion der Stadt. Internationale Bauausstellung Berlin 1987, 15 September - 16 December, touring to: Milan, Palazzo della Triennale, La ricostruzione della città. Berlino IBA 1987. XVII Triennale di Milano, 23 February - 21 March 1985, catalogue Berlin: cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 383 (indicated in the exhibition plan), not repr. (reproduction of a study for the work on p. 327 and in the exhibition brochure); catalogue Milan: repr. p. 24 (exhibition view Berlin 1984; reproduction of a study for the work on p. 104). |
| 1986-87 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli, Markus Lüpertz, Giulio Paolini: figure, colonne, finestre, 19 December 1986 - 29 March 1987, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 58 p. 117, repr. p. 130 (exhibition view). |
| 1988 | Prato, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Europa oggi. Arte contemporanea nell’Europa Occidentale, 25 June - 20 October, mentioned as exhibited and repr. p. 161. |
| 1989 | Cologne, Rheinhallen der Kölner Messe, Bilderstreit. Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960, 8 April - 28 June, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 540 p. 526, repr. p. 283 (exhibition view Rivoli 1986-87). |
| 2007 | Milan, Galleria Christian Stein, opening exhibition of the new venue, from 30 May. |
| • | “Giulio Paolini. Casa di Lucrezio, 1981-1984”, in A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu 5, no. 10-11 (Rome), July, 1984, repr. p. 24 (exhibition view Spoleto 1984). |
| • | Incrocio: un racconto, exhibition catalogue, Erice, “La Salerniana” (Milan: Nuove edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, 1987), repr. p. 62 (exhibition view Rivoli 1986-87). |
| • | S. Schmidt-Wulffen, “Kölner Bilderstreit: Einladung zum Nachsitzen”, in Kunstforum International 101 (Cologne), June, 1989, p. 345, col. repr. p. 340. |
| • | Castello di Rivoli 20 anni d’arte contemporanea, Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Milan: Skira editore, 2005), col. repr. p. 64 (exhibition view Rivoli 1986-87). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 518 p. 529, repr. (exhibition view Rivoli 1986-87). |
