Meno uno, 1994
GPO-0729
Minus One
Photo prints, pencil on wall
Thirty-four framed parts 40 x 28.7 each, overall dimensions variable
Private collection, Naples
The thirty-four photographic elements, placed at short intervals so that they form a square made up of 5 x 7 units, overall reproduce a drawing of planetary orbits, whose origin is vacant (the central piece, as the title tells us, is missing). The drawing on the wall, made up of squares of the same format as the framed elements, suggests a hypothetical extension of the painting (the outer squares are incomplete, thus indicating a potential development).
The motif of the orbits is part of the planetary iconography that the artist introduced in his work starting in the 1980s and is understood to be an independent system in perfect balance, and, therefore, a fulfilled image of harmony.
| 1994 | Naples, Galleria Lucio Amelio, “Allor si mosse, e io li tenni dietro”, May. |
| 1996 | Cassino, Casa Longo, Tempo e forma nell’arte contemporanea, May, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 285, repr. p. 295 (flipped horizontally). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 729 p. 743, col. repr. (exhibition view Cassino 1996). |
