Endimione dormiente, 1981
GPO-0449
Sleeping Endymion
Gilt-framed torn photo prints
Four frames 36 x 26.3 cm each, overall dimensions 36 x 57 cm
Titled, signed, and dated on the verso of one of the four frames: “Endimione dormiente / Giulio Paolini / 1981”
Private collection
Four gilded frames propped up against a wall so that they are staggered and facing different directions frame a torn fragment of a photograph of the sculpture Endimione dormiente (1819-22) by Antonio Canova and, in the first frame to the left, the torn detail of a colour reproduction of an Alpine landscape.
The same theme was developed in two other variants, larger in size, one of which made in 1980 with canvases (GPO-0431) and the other in 1990 with glass sheets (GPO-0660).
Antonio Canova, Endimione dormiente, 1819-22, marble, 93 x 185 cm, Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth House, Bakewell.
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 449 p. 459, repr. |
