Pagine (III), 2000
GPO-0849
Pages (III)
Bound book with blank pages, black pencils
Closed book 32 x 24.5 cm
Collection of the artist
The book is inclined, with the help of a small support made of white wood, styrofoam or other material (8 x 16 x 8 cm).
The point of contact between the pencils and the book is slightly eccentric (i.e. placed outwards with respect to the centre).
• 2000, Zurich, Galerie Verna: the four versions of Pagine are arranged so that the books are opened to different parts: the first book was opened to the middle, the second one was opened to the first pages, the third one was opened to the three-quarter mark, and the fourth one was opened to the middle again.
• 2011, Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria: the four versions of Pagine were all arranged with the books opened to the middle.
A bound book of blank pages open to the middle features a black pencil that is inserted approximately at the centre on either side. On the right side the pencil is directed downwards, while the pencil on the left is directed upwards, as if, ideally, it were the same pencil crossing the whole book, entering on one side and emerging from the other.
The work is part of a group of four variants, made in the same year, each of which distinguished by a different intervention on the book (GPO-0847, GPO-0848, GPO-0849, GPO-0850).
| 2000 | Zurich, Galerie Annemarie Verna, Giulio Paolini. Reportage, 26 May - 15 July. |
| 2002 | Modena, Biblioteca civica d’arte Luigi Poletti, Giulio Paolini. Pagine, 20 September - 23 November, repr. p. 89 (exhibition view Zurich 2000). |
| 2011 | Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, Aula Magna, Libro / Opera. Viaggio nelle pagine d'artista. 1958-2011, 16 September - 12 October 2011, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 4, not repr. |
