All’istante, 2006
GPO-0945
Instantly
White passepartout in plexiglas case, plexiglas plinth, crumpled sheet of drawing paper, pencil on wall
Plexiglas case 91 x 91 cm, plinth 145.6 x 36 x 36 cm, overall dimensions 270 x 270 x 70 cm
Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia
The centre of the elements on the wall (case and squares drawn in pencil) should be placed at the viewer’s eye level (160 cm from the ground). The plexiglas plinth should be 35 cm from the wall.
The framing of a white passepartout, which is in turn framed in a plexiglas case, is reproduced and amplified by two slightly larger squares outlined on the wall. In the foreground, on a plexiglas base placed in the area corresponding to the cut-out of the passepartout, a crumpled sheet of drawing paper offers “all’istante” (instantly), the presumed albeit illegible image that is missing from the case.
The sequence of the frames is the foretaste of a painting that is both announced and subtracted, actually broken up into an enigma: its vacant image become “object”, a body that is material and tangible, yet also unknown and mysterious.
| 2006-07 | New York, Yvon Lambert Gallery, L’autore sconosciuto (The Unknown Artist – L’auteur inconnu). Giulio Paolini, 14 December 2006 - 13 January 2007. |
| 2008-09 | London, Lisson Gallery, Giulio Paolini, 26 November 2008 - 17 January 2009. |
| 2011 | Brescia, Spazio Contemporanea, Massimo Minini: una storia contemporanea. Da un'idea di Ken Damy, 19 February - 16 April, col. repr. n. pag. (exhibition view), referred to in the text by M. Minini n. pag. |
| 2013 | Bologna, Galleria Enrico Astuni, Negative Capability – Paintings, 20 June - 21 December 2013, col. repr. on cover (detail) and pp. 100-101, 142-143 (detail). |
| 2018 | Angera, Rocca di Angera, Ala Scaligera, Continuum, 8 April - 30 September, col. repr. pp. 56-59 (exhibition views). |
| • | Artist / Work / Lisson (London: Lisson Gallery, 2017), col. repr. p. 952 (exhibition view London 2008). |
