Pagine (IV), 2000
GPO-0850
Pages (IV)
Bound book with blank pages, black pencil, crumpled xerox reproductions
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).
• 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. Blackened and crumpled sheets of paper were arranged underneath the book.
• 2011, Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria: the four versions of Pagine were all arranged with the books opened to the middle. Torn fragments of autograph manuscripts were heaped underneath the book.
A bound book of blank pages, opened to the middle, features a black pencil directed downwards inserted in the right side, as if, virtually, it pierced the torn fragments of autograph writings piled up underneath the book.
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. |
