Giulio Paolini
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Often linked to the Arte Povera movement, Giulio Paolini is best known for an artistic practice that is inscribed in a more strictly conceptual sphere. From the outset of his career, Paolini has developed a complex research centred as much on the artist's tools as on the figure of the artist as an operator of language and accomplice of the viewer. The main characteristics of his artistic expression include citation, duplication and fragmentation, which are used as expedients for staging the distance between a finished model for making the work a "theatre of evocation." Articulated and composed designs, centred on additive dynamics (ordering, repetition, juxtaposition) and centrifugal forces, (explosions and dispersions starting from the centre) or centripetal ones (concentration, superimposition, joining), accompany the procedures drawing from a vast store of cultural mythologies and memories that are recaptured in photography, collage and plaster casts. More recently, Paolini's incessant investigation of the definition and purpose of the work has been insistently concerned with the act of exhibiting, which he sees as the fundamental moment of encountering the work.
Giulio Paolini lives and works in Turin.
Artist Contact
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Artist News
Viaggio in Italia: Italian Art 1960-1990
Neue Galerie Graz
14 June 2008 - 25 January 2009
Neue Galerie Graz
Revolutions - Forms that Turn
16 Biennale of Sydney
8 June – 7 September 2008
Biennale of Sydney
Time & Place: Milano-Torino 1958-1968
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1 May - 7 September 2008
Moderna Museet
Artist Press
The Transparent passionNotes on the Art of Giulio Paolini and other recent works.
By Alessandro Rabottini
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Artist Exhibitions
Giulio Paolini April 16 - May 22, 1999View Exhibition
Then and Now July 18 - September 12, 1998
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Out of Sight Out of Mind February 15 - April 3, 1993
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Through the Summer July 23 - September, 1981
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Through the Summer June 21 - August, 1979
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Giulio Paolini March 20 - April 13, 1979
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Giulio Paolini April 15 - May 14, 1977
Artist Images
L'offerta musicale, 2008 Photo: © Claudio Abate, Roma
L'offerta musicale, 2008 Photo: © Claudio Abate, Roma
L'offerta musicale, 2008 Photo: © Claudio Abate, Roma
Immacolata Concezione. Senza Titolo/Senza autore, 2008 Structure in transparent reflecting Plexiglass, crystal sphere, photographic enlargement, fragments of paper and travertine 175 x 320 x 270 cm Photo: Antonio Guerra
Immacolata Concezione. Senza Titolo/Senza autore, 2008 Structure in transparent reflecting Plexiglass, crystal sphere, photographic enlargement, fragments of paper and travertine 175 x 320 x 270 cm Photo: Antonio Guerra
Immacolata Concezione. Senza Titolo/Senza autore, 2008 Structure in transparent reflecting Plexiglass, crystal sphere, photographic enlargement, fragments of paper and travertine 175 x 320 x 270 cm Photo: Antonio Guerra
Giulio Paolini Immacolata Concezione. Senza Titolo/Senza autore, 2008 Structure in transparent reflecting Plexiglass, crystal sphere, photographic enlargement, fragments of paper and travertine 175 x 320 x 270 cm Variants of the original projects of the work
Giulio Paolini Immacolata Concezione. Senza Titolo/Senza autore, 2008 Structure in transparent reflecting Plexiglass, crystal sphere, photographic enlargement, fragments of paper and travertine 175 x 320 x 270 cm Variants of the original projects of the work
All'Istante, 2006 Plexiglas case with with mat inside, Plexiglas plinth, crumpled paper ball, pencil drawing on wall
Status Quo, 2006 Drawing in Plexiglas case, pencil on wall Case 31 x 31 x 3.4 cm
Esposizione universale, 2005 Steel tubular structure, transparent and reflective plexiglas sheets (partly engraved), glass objects, crystal and plexiglas objects, spot-light, coloured halogen lights Dimensions variable
Il Disegno in persona, 1998 Framed photograph, frame with black passe-partout, pencil on paper, collage on wall Frame with passe-partout 70 x 80 cm, overall dimensions ca. 125 x 125 cm Collection of the artist Photo © Croce & Wir, Graz
Essere o non essere, 1995 Pencil and red felt-tip pen on primed canvas, pencil on paper, red felt-tip pen on photograph, Plexiglas sheets, drawing paper, black pencil 64 canvas 50 x 50 cm each, six photographs and six Plexiglas sheets 50 x 50 cm each, overall dimensions variable
Due per Uno, 1994 Pencil on overturned canvas , red pencil on primed canvas, Overall dimensions 120 x 145 cm
Quattro per uno, 1994 Primed canvas on overturned canvas, pencil on primed canvas, overturned canvas and wall Two primed canvas 35 x 45 cm and 40 x 50, overturned canvas 80 x 110 cm, drawing on wall 160 x 240 cm, overall dimensions 190 x 240 cm Photo Carlo Fei
Mnemosine (Les Charmes de la Vie/8), 1990 Acrylic on canvas, canvas stretchers, pencil on primed canvas Painted canvas 160 x 240 cm, 8 canvas stretchers 160 x 240 cm each, primed canvas 40 x 60 cm
Qui , 1967-85 Engraving on Plexiglas Three elements Ø 100 cm each, overall size ca. 3 x 105 x 105 cm
La Doublure, 1972-73 Engraving, pencil and nails on primed canvas 40 x 60 cm
Apoteosi di Omero, 1970-71 32 Photographic prints, typescript, book stands Photographs 30 x 24 cm each
Senza titolo (Plakat Carton), 1962 Coloured cards stapled on polyethylene board 30 x 30 cm Collection Anna Paolini Piva, Turin Photo © Paolo Mussat Sartor, Turin
Senza titolo, 1961 Tin of paint, stretcher, polyethylene 21 x 21 cm