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Salto mortale, 1987
GPO-0598
Somersault
Gilt frames, collage on paper and on wall
Dismantled work
Salto mortale stages, in the middle image at the top, an acrobat upside down as he is about to take a dangerous jump (the figure is half-hidden by several sheets of blank paper applied to the glass of the frame). The elements scattered all around it – blank sheets of paper in gilded frames, alternatively seen from the recto and the verso, and sheets of drawing paper, some of which held down on the frames – seem to freely escape the actor who, in his acrobatic position, alludes to the condition of the artist as a figure who is forever in precarious balance.
| 1987 | Milan, Galleria Christian Stein, Giulio Paolini, 9 June - 27 July. |
| 1987 | Nagoya, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Giulio Paolini, 31 October - 20 December, cited in the checklist of exhibited works and col. repr. p. 48 (exhibition views). |
| • | La forma restituita. Arte italiano de fin de milenio, exhibition catalogue, Palma de Mallorca, Centre Cultural Contemporani Pelaires, 2005, col. repr. p. 19 (exhibition view Milan 1987). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 598 p. 613, col. repr. (exhibition view Milan 1987). |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 03/07/2026
