Catalogue entry

Display

The twelve elements must be lined up in a horizontal row, with relatively wide intervals between them, depending on the length of the wall available.

Display chronology

• 2005, Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte: on a long wall (19.23 m) the artist the artist placed in between the twelve framed elements, lined up with a sufficient amount of space in between, a wall drawing of rectangles, oriented horizontally or vertically, and arranged in a different way each time. The author used this type of installation only on this occasion.

Description

A photograph of Ebe (1816) by Antonio Canova is doubled in a specular sense twelve times: in the vis-à-vis, the two figures that from one element to another change the appearance of their silhouette exchange an iconographic element. Each time the object of the exchange, placed in the area corresponding to the amphora and cup held by Hebe, comprises details from the same sculpture or reproductions of other subjects, or else various pieces of paper, so as to create a kaleidoscope of apparitions evoking the mirages of an "enchanted castle".

Sources

Antonio Canova, Ebe, 1816, marble, h 166 cm, Musei di San Domenico, Forlì; reproduction from the cover of I Maestri della scultura. Canova 67 (Milan: Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1966.

Exhibitions

1976 (?)	Parma, Palazzo della Pilotta, Sala delle Scuderie, Giulio Paolini, 11 March - 21 April, not repr.
1977	New York, Sperone-Westwater-Fischer, Giulio Paolini, 15 January - 15 February.
1977	Mannheim, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Giulio Paolini, 31 July - 28 August, not repr.
1981	Ulm, Ulmer Museum, Seit ’45. Internationale Kunst, 3 July - 16 August, no catalogue.
1983	Bonn, Bonner Kunstverein, Concetto-Imago. Generationswechsel in Italien, 18 March - 1 May, col. repr. p. 17 (detail).
1986	Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Giulio Paolini, 20 September - 2 November, cited in the checklist of exhibited works vol. 4 no. 26 p. 52, repr. vol. 2 p. 30 (detail).
1988-89	Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Giulio Paolini, 24 November 1988 - 26 February 1989, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 95, col. repr. no. 20.
1991	Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Denk-Bilder. Kunst der Gegenwart 1960-1990, 13 July - 8 September, touring to: Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, 6 October - 24 November, b/w repr. pp. 70-71, col. repr. on cover (detail).
2003	Magdeburg, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, La Poetica dell’Arte Povera, 14 September - 7 December, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 62 p. 236, col. repr. pp. 166-167, referred to in the text by K. Kohlhoff pp. 203-204.
2005	Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Giulio Paolini. Esposizione universale, 1 October 2005 - 8 January 2006, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 89, repr. p. 82 (detail), referred to in the text by E. Franz p. 82 (same catalogue as for the solo exhibition in Winterthur 2005).
2009	Goslar, Mönchehaus Museum, Palais des Mirages. Werke aus der Sammlung FER, 9 May -12 July, not repr.

Bibliography

•	Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1980, repr. p. 35 (detail).
•	Die Sammlung FER – The FER Collection, edited by P. Maenz (Cologne: Verlag Gerd de Vries, 1983), cited in the list of works from the collection p. 185, not repr.
•	Del Arte Povera a 1985, exhibition catalogue, Madrid, Palacio de Cristal, Palacio de Velázquez, Parque del Retiro, 1985, col. repr. no. 99 p. 113 (detail).
•	50 rue de Varenne, Italian-French supplement to Nuovi Argomenti 20 (Paris-Milan), December, 1986, repr. p. 129 (detail).
•	Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Nagoya, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1987, repr. p. 21 (detail).
•	G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. pp. 86-87 (eight elements).
•	G. Joppolo, Arte povera. Actualité des arts plastiques 76 (Paris: Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique, 1988), repr. p. 53 (detail).
•	Sfera 41 (Rome), August-October, 1994, col. repr. pp. 42-43.
•	M. Unterdörfer, Die Rezeption der Antike in der Postmoderne: der Gipsabguss in der italienischen Kunst der siebziger und achtziger Jahre (Weimar: VDG Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, 1998), pp. 22, 179, cat. no. 32 p. 141, repr. no. 3 p. 202 (four elements).
•	Kunst sammeln, edited by G. Adriani (Karlsruhe-Ostfildern-Ruit: Museum für neue Kunst and Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999), col. repr. p. 146 (detail).
•	N. Bätzner, Arte Povera. Zwischen Erinnerung und Ereignis: Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis (Nuremberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2000), pp. 94-96, col. repr. p. 95.
•	L.V. Masini, L’arte del Novecento. Dall’Espressionismo al Multimediale, vol. XI: L’Arte come idea (Florence-Rome: Giunti and Gruppo Editoriale Espresso, 2003), col. repr. no. 2848 p. 558 (detail).
•	R. Krüger, Nach der Antike. Studien zur Antikenrezeption in der bildenden Kunst seit 1967 (Essen: Klartext, 2004), p. 57, not repr.
•	Giulio Paolini. Tre per tre (ognuno è l’altro o nessuno), exhibition catalogue, Rome, Uccelliera di Villa Borghese (Rome: Electa Editrice, 2008), repr. n. pag. (detail).
•	Sammlung FER Collection, exhibition catalogue, Ulm, Stadtregal, 2009, col. repr. (detail, loose entry).
•	M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 326 pp. 334-335, col. repr.
•	J. Meinhardt, “Vedere ed essere visti. Giulio Paolini e lo sguardo”, in E. Franz et al., Giulio Paolini. Vedo e non vedo. In tema 1 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2014), p. 112, col. repr. p. 109.
•	Giulio Paolini. O.D.E., exhibition catalogue, Monforte d’Alba (Cuneo), Castello di Perno (Alba: Fondazione Mancini Carini, 2022), repr. pp. 158-159 (exhibition view Rome 1988).
•	Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), repr. p. 153 (exhibition view Mannheim 1977, detail), col. repr. p. 197 (exhibition view Stuttgart 1986, detail), repr. p. 206 (exhibition view Rome 1988).

Palais des Mirages, 1976