Il cielo e dintorni, 1988
GPC-0741
The Sky and Environs
Collage on paper
Eighteen parts 33 x 48 cm each
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino
Gift of the artist, 2004, inventory no. C-PAOG-010
The eighteen elements that make up the work can be arranged in a row, at short intervals from each other, or they can be arranged in several rows to form a rectangle, either horizontal (3 x 6 units) or vertical (6 x 3 units).
Not all eighteen elements have to be installed: the minimum number of elements is 9, to be presented in horizontal succession, or across several rows, thus forming a rectangle with 3 x 3 units at short intervals from each other.
Details from the following artworks (from left to right):
1. Raffaello Sanzio, Trasfigurazione, 1520, tempera on wood, 410 × 279 cm, Musei Vaticani, Vatican City.
2. Pablo Picasso, Étude pour “La chute d’Icare”, 1958, charcoal and blue pencil on paper.
3. Fernand Léger, Les Loisirs: Hommage à Louis David, 1948-49, oil on canvas, 154 x 185 cm, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
4. Henri Rousseau, Paysage avec le dirigeable “Patrie”, 1907-08, oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm, Bridgeston Museum, Tokyo.
5. Perugino, Gonfalone della Giustizia, c. 1501, tempera and oil on canvas, 278 x 138 cm, Galleria nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia.
6. Eugène Delacroix, La Liberté guidant le peuple, 1830, oil on canvas, 260 x 325 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
7. Jean-Louis-Théodore Géricault, Le Radeau de la Méduse, 1819, oil on canvas, 491 × 716 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
8. Domenico Veneziano, San Francesco riceve le stigmate, c. 1445, tempera on wood, 26.7 x 30.5 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
9. Albrecht Altdorfer, Alexanderschlacht, 1529, oil on wood, 158 x 120 cm, Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
10. Giorgione, La tempesta, c. 1508, tempera and oil on canvas, 83 × 73 cm, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice.
11. Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October 1834, 1835, oil on canvas, 92 x 123 cm, The Philadelphia Museum of Art: The John Howard McFadden Collection, Philadelphia.
12. Sassetta, San Francesco e il lupo di Gubbio, 1437-44, tempera on wood, 87.6 x 52 cm, The National Gallery, London.
13. Lucio Fontana, Ambiente spaziale al neon, made for the 9th Triennale di Milano, 1951.
14. Piero della Francesca, Sacra Conversazione, 1472-74, tempera and oil on wood, 248 x 170 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.
15. Agnolo Bronzino, Deposizione, 1545, oil on wood, 268 x 173 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon.
16. Giacomo Balla, Forze aeroplano Caproni, 1915, crayon on paper, 41 x 57 cm, private collection, Rome.
17. Giorgio de Chirico, La partenza degli Argonauti, 1920, tempera on canvas, 54 x 73 cm, Collezione Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per l’Arte – Long-term loan Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin.
18. Yves Klein, Le saut dans le vide, 1960, gelatin silver print, 26 x 20 cm, J. Paul Getty Trust. The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
| 1989 | Nice, Villa Arson, Pas à côté pas n’importe où 4, 12 July - 24 September, no catalogue. |
| 2008-09 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Una stanza tutta per sé, 2 April 2008 - 18 January 2009, no catalogue. |
| 2024-25 | Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Il Castello Incantato, 19 December 2024 - 19 December 2025, senza catalogo. |
| • | Il cielo e dintorni, exhibition catalogue, Radda in Chianti, Castello di Volpaia, Fattoria Editrice, 1988, col. repr. n. pag. (graphic processing). |
| • | Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Turin, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Turin: Hopefulmonster, 1999), repr. p. 48 (graphic processing of three preliminary projects). |
| • | M. Bandini, M.C. Mundici, M.T. Roberto, Luciano Pistoi: “inseguo un mio disegno” (Turin: Hopefulmonster editore, 2008), repr. p. 334 (graphic processing of four preliminary projects). |
| • | Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. La Residenza Sabauda – La Collezione (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), p. 414, col. repr. pp. 416-417 (exhibition view Rivoli 2008). |
