Eclipse (painted by George Stubbs), 1986
GPO-0576
Framed photo print, fractured plaster cast, plexiglas sheet
Photo frame 35 x 45 cm, plexiglas sheet 60 x 60 cm
The work was executed in a numbered edition of six.
| 1/6 | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Gift of Geri and Lester Pollack, New York to American Friends of the Israel Museum |
| 2/6 | Private collection, Rome |
| 3/6 | Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, Maryland |
| 4/6 | Studio La Città, Verona |
| 5/6 | Alfonso Artiaco, Naples |
| 6/6 | Goetz Collection, Munich |
| 1/6 | Gift of Geri and Lester Pollack, 1990, inventory no. B90.060 |
The installation, with a plexiglas sheet on the support surface, requires a plinth, but in a domestic situation a table can also be used.
The framed colour photograph reproduces a print of a painting by George Stubbs representing the horse Eclipse,1 while behind the image, the piled up fragments of the plaster cast of a sculpture of a horse are “eclipsed” by the framed image.2 In this game of copies that “eclipse” the model, the subject is not just hidden but even dissolved in fragments.
1 The print with the caption Eclipse (painted by George Stubbs) reproduces the painting by George Stubbs entitled Eclipse at Newmarket, with a groom and a jockey (1770).
2 The cast reproduces the Cavallino arabo (1819) by Gaetano Monti, already used in Nesso, 1977 (GPO-0374).
• Cast: Gaetano Monti, Cavallo arabo, 1819, bronze, 56.5 x 23 x 61.5 cm, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan.
• Photograph: George Stubbs, Eclipse at Newmarket, with a groom and a jockey, 1770, oil on canvas, 100.3 x 131.5 cm, The Stewards of the Jockey Club, Newmarket.
| 1987 | Rome, Galleria Pieroni, Giulio Paolini, from 7 February; edition 4/6. |
| 1987 | New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, Giulio Paolini, 9-31 October, cited in the checklist of exhibited works n. pag., repr. no. I. |
| 1988 | Milan, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Presi per incantamento: la nuova fotografia internazionale, 8 June - 18 July, repr. p. 115; edition on loan from the artist. |
| 1989 | Toronto, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Giulio Paolini, from 11 March, no catalogue. |
| 1990-91 | Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, The Art of Describing: Homage and Appropriation, October 1990 - January 1991, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 1991 | Munich, Kunstverein München, Arte Povera 1971 und 20 Jahre danach, 24 May - 23 June, repr. no. 29 (b/w illustrations; erroneously dated “1988”, work not installed by the artist); edition 6/6. |
| 1993 | Munich, Sammlung Goetz, Sammlung Goetz, from 6 March, no catalogue; edition 6/6. |
| 1996-97 | Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Present Tense 2, December 1996 - September 1997, no catalogue; edition 1/6. |
| 1997-00 | Bremen, Neues Museum Weserburg, Arte Povera. Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz 1958 bis heute, 22 June - 7 September, touring to: Nuremberg, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, 2 October - 7 December; Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 14 February - 26 April 1998; Vienna, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, 19 June - 30 August 1998; Göteborg (Sweden), Konsthallen, 19 September - 22 November 1998; Munich, Sammlung Goetz, 24 January - 20 May 2000 (part II), col. repr. p. 142 (incorrect installation), catalogue entry p. 237; edition 6/6. |
| 2007 | Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Mentalgrafie. Viaggio nell’arte contemporanea italiana / Mentalscapes. A Journey through Italian Contemporary Art, 19 July - 6 October, col. repr. p. 73 (incorrect installation); edition 1/6. |
| 2012 | London, Ronchini Gallery, Italian Beauty: Works by Giulio Paolini, Domenico Bianchi and Giò Ponti, 17 February - 5 April, col. repr. pp. 4 (exhibition view), 30-31; edition 4/6. |
| 2012 | New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, The Memory of White, 18 October - 30 November, col. repr. p. 31 (installation at Studio La Città); edition 4/6. |
| 2012-13 | Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Arte Povera. Der grosse Aufbruch, 9 September 2012 - 3 February 2013, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 75 p. 133, col. repr.; edition 6/6. |
| 2017 | New York, Hauser & Wirth, Arte Povera. Curated by Ingvild Goetz, 12 September - 28 October, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 261, col. repr. pp. 118-119, 127 and 128-129 (exhibition views), 244 (exhibition view Munich 1997); edition 6/6. |
| • | G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. p. 57. |
| • | V. Pasca, “Una libreria a Torino. Progetto per frammenti”, in Casa Vogue 196 (Milan), May, 1988, col. repr. p. 216 (work installed by the artist at the occasion of the opening of the bookshop Bloomsbury Books & Arts, Turin). |
| • | Special Affects. The Photographic Experience in Contemporary Art (Milan: Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1989), repr. p. 115. |
| • | F. Poli, Giulio Paolini (Turin: Lindau, 1990), repr. no. 155. |
| • | Arte Povera. Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz 1958 bis heute (Munich: Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz, 1997), col. repr. p. 142 (incorrect installation), catalogue entry p. 237; English edition Munich 2001: col. repr. pp. 11 (exhibition view Munich 2000), 144, catalogue entry p. 250. |
| • | M. Unterdörfer, Die Rezeption der Antike in der Postmoderne: der Gipsabguss in der italienischen Kunst der siebziger und achtziger Jahre (Weimar: VDG Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, 1998), p. 180, cat. no. 61 p. 146, not repr. |
| • | M. Meneguzzo, in Giulio Paolini, brochure (Verona: Studio La Città, 2007), repr. (incompletely titled “Eclipse”). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 576 p. 589, repr. |
| • | Arte Povera Seen by Ingvild Goetz (New York: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2017), col. repr. pp. 118-119, 128-129 and 138 (exhibition views New York 2017), 127, 244 (exhibition view Munich 1993), caption p. 261. |
