Giulio Paolini *

(born in Genua 1940)
Museo (Aprile 1504), 1970–1973, signed, titled and dated on the reverse, photo emulsion on canvas, 62 x 95 cm

This work is registered in the Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini, Turin and is published in the Online Catalogue Raisonné of the works of Giulio Paolini

Provenance:
Artist’s collection
Galleria Notizie, Turin
Studio Simonis, Turin
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Turin, Giulio Paolini. Museo, Galleria Notizie, from February 1975
Milan, Fotomedia, Rotonda di via Besana, 24 March - 13 April 1975

Literature:
4 aus Italien, Alfano, Di Bello, Calzolari, Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, 1974
G. Paolini, Idem, Giulio Einaudi Editore, Turin, 1975, p. 56–57 with ill. (eight editions); new edition: Milan, Electa, 2023, pp. 82 – 83 with ill.
R. Barilli, “Fantasmi fatti a macchina”, in L’Espresso, Rome, 7 December 1975; republished in Giulio Paolini, Parma, Università di Parma, Centro di Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, 1976, p. 95;
Id., Informale Oggetto Comportamento, vol. II: La ricerca artistica negli anni ‘70, Milan, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, 1979, p. 195
M. Fagiolo, “Glossario”, in Giulio Paolini, op. cit., Parma: 1976, pp. 18, 28, no. 163 with ill.
G. Celant (ed.), Identité Italienne. L’Art en Italie depuis 1959, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris - Florence, 1981, p. 464 with ill. (painting “Ottobre 1636” ill.);
G. Paolini, Figures/Intentions, Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, 1984, p. 17 with ill. (painting ”Ottobre 1921” ill.);
G. Celant (ed.), Coerenza in coerenza. Dall’arte Povera al 1984, Mondadori, Milan, 1984, p. 153 with ill. (painting “Ottobre 1636” ill.);
F. Poli, “Note di lettura”, in Id., Giulio Paolini, Turin, Lindau, 1990, p. 35 republished in Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum, Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998, p. 59
Giulio Paolini. Da oggi a ieri. Von heute bis gestern, exhibition catalogue Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Cantz Verlag, 1998, p. 59
G. Paolini in the interview with A. Madesani in “Rubare l’immagine. Gli artisti e la fotografia negli anni ’70, Edizioni Tega, Milan, 2000, p. 73
Giulio Paolini. L’ora X, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Prato: Gli Ori, 2004, p. 86 (painting ”Ottobre 1921” ill.);
M.T. Roberto, “Le due città. Luciano Pistoi tra Torino e Roma, 1962-68”, in M. Bandini, M.C. Mundici and M.T. Roberto, Luciano Pistoi: “inseguo un mio disegno”, Turin: Hopefulmonster editore, 2008, p. 49
M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo Ragionato, Tomo primo (1960-1982), Skira, Milan, 2008, pp. 264-265, no. 2 with ill.
L. Vecere, In assenza. Appunti sull’autoritratto contemporaneo, Pisa: University Press, 2017, pp. 69, 71, p. 70 with ill.
M. Apa, “Pensiero e azione del linguaggio (Giulio Paolini e Dan Flavin)”, in L’azione, proceedings of the study day promoted by the Pontificio Ateneo Sant’Anselmo, Rome, 4 October 2016, edited by D. D. López-Tello García, P. Nouzille, O.M. Sarr (Sankt Ottilien: EOS Verlag, 2019), pp. 229, 231

Note:
“Museo” was conceived as a group of eight paintings, presented all together at the Galleria Notizie in Turin in 1975 and then divided up and sold individually. The photo canvases reproduce places where famous artists from the past who are particularly dear to Paolini once worked – in this case, the birthplace of Raphael in Urbino.
The months indicated in the subtitles are arbitrary, while the years correspond to works created by the referenced artists. In this case, for Raphael, the year 1504 could refer to “The Betrothal of the Virgin.”