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Diapason, 1979-80
GPO-0429
Tuning Fork
Pencil on primed canvas and on reversed canvas, brass decoration
107.5 x 150 cm
Signed and dated on the verso, on the stretcher: “1979-80”
Private collection, Rome
On a rectangular canvas featuring a grid of varyingly sized rectangles drawn in pencil, five small canvases of different sizes – four of them viewed from the recto, one from the verso –- in turn feature a register of rectangular “paintings”, thus creating a game of agreements and dissonances.
The ensemble is "harmonized" by the brass ornament (a goddess driving a chariot drawn by a pair of swans) at the top of the canvas striking the “tuning fork”.
The same theme was developed in two other variants made during the same year (GPO-0427, GPO-0428).
| • | Giulio Paolini, vol. Images/Index (Villeurbanne: Le Nouveau Musée, 1984), repr. p. 51 (erroneously dated “1980-81”). |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998), repr. p. 258. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 429 p. 440, repr. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 11/05/2026
