En plein air (due impronte per N. T.), 1995-96
GPO-0769
En plein air (Two Imprints for N. T.)
Wooden tripod, country easels, plexiglas sheets, fragments of photographic reproductions
Two plexiglas sheets 50 x 50 cm each, overall dimensions 160 x 60 x 60 cm
Niele Toroni Collection, Paris
• 1996, Paris, Galerie Yvon Lambert: the tripod stood on a plexiglas sheet following a criterion for the exhibition design that was also applied to the other works on display.
Two plexiglas sheets set down on two outdoor easels arranged on a wooden tripod – the two sheets were arranged in the location that had been chosen for the canvas – each hold down a torn fragment of a colour reproduction of a daytime or night-time sky. In addition to being a tribute to his friend, the artist Niele Toroni – whose initials are contained in the title and is evoked through the two "imprints" – the work constitutes "a sort of symbolic clock that marks the artist's ceaseless commitment to the work",1 in Paolini's words.
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. 769 p. 782.
| 1996 | Paris, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Giulio Paolini. L’Île enchantée, 6 January - 17 February. |
| • | G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2005), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 769 p. 782. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998), col. repr. p. 326 (exhibition view Paris 1996). |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Premio Internazionale Koinè 2000 alla carriera, exhibition catalogue, Verona, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti (Milan: Electa, 2001), col. repr. pp. 54-55 (exhibition view Paris 1996). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 769 p. 782, col. repr. |
| • | Arte povera 2011, edited by G. Celant (Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2011), col. repr. no. 323 (exhibition view Paris 1996). |
