L’artista ringrazia, 1987
GPO-0597
The Artist Expresses His Gratitude
Coloured frames, collage on paper, on plexiglas and on wall
Dismantled work
The actor wearing a tail-coat at the centre serves as the epicentre of a dissemination of paper elements: sheets of blank paper framed in frames of various colours, letter paper and envelopes of the same colour as the frames.
“The artist – Paolini says – looks out from the proscenium and turns to the public with the ‘coloured writing’ that belongs to the repertory of 'his' theatre".1
1 G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2004), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 597 p. 612.
Figure from Stephen Harvey, Fred Astaire (Milan: Milano Libri Edizioni, 1978), p. 113 (”I Barkley di Broadway (1949), con Ginger Rogers”).
| 1987 | Milan, Galleria Christian Stein, Giulio Paolini, 9 June - 27 July. |
| 1987 | Nagoya, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Giulio Paolini, 31 October - 20 December, cited in the checklist of exhibited works and col. repr. p. 46 (exhibition view). |
| • | G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2004), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 597 p. 612. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 597 p. 612, col. repr. (exhibition view Milan 1987). |
