Intervallo, 1984
GPO-0525
Interval
Plaster casts, white plinths
Two casts: 77 x 43 x 16 cm, 100 x 50 x 36 cm, two plinths 90 x 48 x 20 cm each, overall dimensions variable
The work was executed in a numbered edition of six.
| 1/6 | Private collection |
| 2/6 | Private collection, Italy |
| 3/6 | Private collection |
| 4/6 | Present whereabouts unknown |
| 5/6 | Private collection |
| 6/6 | Private collection |
The two halves of the plaster cast of the torso of the Borghese Gladiator, each of which set down on a plinth, are placed one before the other, up close to two opposite walls.
“Intervallo – writes the artist – is the distance that separates the two ‘moments’ in which the figure comes apart. But on close examination, the intervals are also two. The first one, which is visible, is made up of the short distance that separates the two halves of the same statue on two walls of the room. The second one, which is virtual or imaginary, is the entire circumference of our planet (minus the short portion visible in the room) through which the two halves could be put back together again. Could it therefore be the beginning and the end of the subject?".1
The same theme was formulated in three other variants made in 1985 and in 1986 with casts of other classical statues (GPO-0542, GPO-0549, GPO-0571).
1 G. Paolini in an unpublished passage of an interview with M. Belpoliti that took place in 1999, typescript held in the artist's archive.
Gladiatore Borghese, 1st century BC, marble, h 155 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
| 1985 | Turin, Galleria Christian Stein, Quodlibet II. Fabro, Paolini, Penone, from 15 May. |
| 1985-86 | Montreal, Musée d’art contemporain, Giulio Paolini, 7 July - 8 September, touring to: Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, 29 November 1985 - 19 January 1986, not repr. (same catalogue as for the solo exhibition in Villeurbanne 1984). |
| 1986 | Cologne, Galerie Paul Maenz, Giulio Paolini. Dal “Trionfo della rappresentazione” (cerimoniale: in prospettiva), 4 February - 1 March; edition 3/6. |
| 1986 | Chicago, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Anselmo, Fabro, Kounellis, Mario Merz, Paolini, Zorio, 16 May - 28 June; edition 1/6. |
| 1988 | Worms, Schloss Herrnsheim, Mnemosyne oder das Theater der Erinnerung, 2 October - 13 November, repr. pp. 11 (exhibition view), 93; edition 5/6. |
| 2005 | Verona, Studio La Città, Je ne regrette rien. 35° anniversario della galleria, from 21 May; edition 3/6. |
| 2005 | Palma de Mallorca, Centre Cultural Contemporani Pelaires, La forma restituita. Arte italiano de fin de milenio, 12 August - 20 November 2005, col. repr. pp. 25 (exhibition view), 69; edition on loan from Galleria Christian Stein (maybe 5/6?). |
| 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, not repr., in the visitor’s guide referred to in the text by E. Franz; edition 3/6. |
| 2005-06 | Milan, Galleria Cardi & Co., Alighiero Boetti, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Enrico Castellani, Nicola De Maria, Gino de Dominicis, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, Mimmo Paladino, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giuseppe Uncini, Gilberto Zorio, 24 November 2005 - 21 January 2006; edition 3/6. |
| 2006 | Carrara, Museo della Scultura, XII Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara. Una Biennale per il museo. La contemporaneità dell’arte, 29 July - 24 September, col. repr. p. 239; edition Galleria Christian Stein. |
| 2008 | New York, Luhring Augustine Gallery, Red Sky, 12 January - 16 February; edition Galleria Christian Stein. |
| 2009 | New York, Luhring Augustine Gallery, The Irreverent Object: European Sculpture from the '60s, '70s and '80s, 7 November - 19 December 2009; edition Galleria Christian Stein. |
| 2015 | Milan, Fondazione Prada, In Part, 9 May - 31 October, not repr.; edition 3/6. |
| • | Mater dulcissima, exhibition catalogue, Siracusa, Chiesa dei Cavalieri di Malta (Syracuse: Edizioni Tema Celeste, 1986), col. repr. no. 4 p. 17. |
| • | Paul Maenz Ausstellungen / Exhibitions. Saison / Season 1985-86 (Cologne: Galerie Paul Maenz, 1986), repr. n. pag., on cover and back cover (exhibition view Cologne 1986). |
| • | The Refco Collection, edited by A. Books (Chicago: Refco Group Ltd., 1990), col. repr. cat. no. 53 p. 126, entry by E. Heartney p. 127 (erroneously dated “1974”). |
| • | Paul Maenz Köln 1970-1980-1990. Eine Avantgarde-Galerie und die Kunst unserer Zeit / An Avant-Garde Gallery and the Art of Our Time, edited by G. de Vries (Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 1991), repr. p. 204 (exhibition view Cologne 1986). |
| • | La collection Christian Stein. Un regard sur l’art italien (Villeurbanne: Le Nouveau Musée and Art Édition, 1992), repr. p. 189, catalogue entry p. 294 (dated “1984”). |
| • | Italiana. From Arte Povera to Transavanguardia, exhibition catalogue, Yokohama, Nicaf 3 (Milan: Fondazione Mudima Edizioni, 1994), col. repr. p. 203. |
| • | M. Bertoni, “Giulio Paolini. Dove vedo”, in Critica e documentazione 7, supplement to the bimonthly journal Segno 132 (Pescara), April, 1994, pp. 19, 22, not repr. (in general on the group of works titled Intervallo); republished in M. Bertoni, Tempi e forme. Una ricerca sulle arti visive contemporanee (Turin: Hopefulmonster editore, 1998), p. 206, not repr. |
| • | D. Sung, “Arte per la vita”, in Case da abitare 48 (Turin), June, 2001, col. repr. p. 80 (installation view at the gallery-cum-house of Christian Stein, Turin). |
| • | P. Catalano, “Ritorno al moderno”, in Io donna, supplement to the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera (Milan), 6 April 2002, col. repr. (installation view at the home of a private collector, Rome). |
| • | Exempla. Arte italiana nella vicenda europea 1960-2000, exhibition catalogue, Teramo, Pinacoteca Civica e siti urbani (Prato: Gli Ori, 2002), repr. p. 157 (erroneously dated “1964”). |
| • | Belvedere dell’arte. Orizzonti, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Forte Belvedere (Milan: Skira editore, 2003), col. repr. p. 122. |
| • | Intra-muros, exhibition catalogue, Nice, Musée d’Art moderne et d’Art contemporain, 2004, col. repr. p. 200 (dated “1984”). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 525 pp. 536-537, col. repr. |
| • | Untitled. The best of Galleria Cardi, edited by G. Valcamonica (Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2009), col. repr. n. pag. |
| • | A. Soldaini, “‘Cos’altro c’è da dire?’”, in Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), p. 35, col. repr. |
