Iper (a M. D.), 1965-89
GPO-0659
Iper (To M. D.)
Collage on photo print applied to wooden panel
100 x 100 cm
Private collection, Bologna
The black and white photograph reproduces the artist’s work Iper (a M. D.) from 1965 (GPO-0089), consisting of a telescope placed before a window, facing infinity. In the revisitation of this theme, the colour insert with the image of the Earth amplifies the incommensurable dimension called into play by the work, with respect to the limits of our field of vision.
“In this new version of Iper – the artist declares – the photograph taken at the time by Anna in my studio shows the image of the Earth balanced on the telescope. The round shape of our planet and that of the telescope lens vie for an absolute dimension before the little or nothing that we can glimpse from the window".1
1 G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2005), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 659 p. 675.
| 1990 | Bologna, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Villa delle Rose, Giulio Paolini. Hotel de l’Univers, 27 May - 29 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 11 p. 17, repr. p. 51 (exhibition view). |
| • | G. Paolini in the interview with M. Pistoi, “Giulio Paolini”, in Marcatrè 19-22 (Milan), April, 1966, p. 386; republished in Giulio Paolini. La voce del pittore – Scritti e interviste 1965- 1995, edited by M. Disch (Lugano: ADV Publishing House, 1995), p. 146. |
| • | G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2005), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 659 p. 675. |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Bologna, Studio G7 (Bologna: Damiani editore, 2008), col. repr. p. 73. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 659 p. 675, col. repr. |
