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GPO-0294

Untitled

Coloured pencils and photographic fragments on primed canvas

40 x 40 cm

Signed and dated on the verso, lower stretcher bar, centre: "Giulio Paolini / 1975"

Private collection, Cremona

Mounted in the four corners of a primed canvas are the torn corners of an unused copy of the photographic canvas of a previous work (Un segreto, 1969, GPO-0192). The framing of the hypothetical torn image continues illusively onto the canvas via four lines made with coloured pencils: green (top), yellow (right), red (bottom) and blue (left).

M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 294 p. 303, col. repr.
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 07/05/2026