Jamais vu, 2005
GPO-0903
Primed canvases fastened one to the other, armchair
245 x 230 x 155 cm
The Rose Collection and the Rachofsky Collection
Thirty canvases, alternatively seen from the recto and the verso, overlap each other according to increasing size and gradually rotating. They thus form a sort of telescope from the point of view of the hypothetical viewer seated on a chair in front of the wall.
The chair alludes to the author, intent on peering out at the horizon in his never-ending search for “his” painting, which, however, moves away for as far as the eye can see, multiplying itself in a swirling kaleidoscope of alleged paintings. The staggered sequence of canvases suggests the process of research through which an image attempts to find its own position of balance, while the recto/verso alternation alludes to the conceptual itinerary that from one end to another of the blank canvas reviews the possible faces that a painting can assume.
| 2005 | Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Giulio Paolini. Esposizione universale, 23 April - 24 June, touring to: Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, 1 October 2005 - 8 January 2016, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 20 p. 87, col. repr. n. pag. (exhibition view), referred to in the text by D. Schwarz p. 23; in the Münster visitor’s guide cited in the text by E. Franz. |
| 2007 | Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, 11 February - 20 May, col. repr. p. 179 (exhibition view Winterthur 2005). |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Esposizione Universale, photo shoot of the solo exhibition in Winterthur 2005, in Lotus 125 (Milan), September, 2005, col. repr. pp. 71, 73. |
| • | G. Paolini, Quattro passi. Nel museo senza muse (Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2006), repr. no. XIV. |
| • | A. Bellini, “Giulio Paolini. A Normal Life”, in Flash Art 40, no. 225 (Milan, international edition), July-September, 2007, col. repr. p. 116. |
| • | A. Bellini, “Giulio Paolini. Autoriflessivo”, in Flash Art 42, no. 275 (Milan, Italian edition), April-May, 2009, col. repr. p. 71. |
| • | D. Thompson, Shock Art. Kunst, handel en hebzucht (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Walewein, 2010), col. repr. on cover. |
| • | E. Franz, “‘Vedo e non vedo’”, in E. Franz et al., Giulio Paolini. Vedo e non vedo. In tema 1 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2014), p. 42, col. repr. p. 42. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), col. repr. pp. 242 (exhibition view Winterthur 2005), 245 (exhibition view Münster 2005). |
| • | N. Bätzner, “Dignitas contra Banality: Konzepte der Harmonie und Würde bei Francesco Vezzoli, Jeff Koons und Giulio Paolini”, in Grundlegende Konzepte der Renaissance in der Kunst der Moderne, Postmoderne und Gegenwart, edited by B. Stoltz (Lausanne: Peter Lang Group AG, 2024), p. 140, col. repr. no. 10 p. 139 (exhibition view Winterthur 2005). |
