Between the Acts (V. W.), 2022
GPC-2180
Collage on black paper
Two parts 45 x 63 cm each, overall dimensions 45 x 128 cm
Title, signed and dated on the verso of the second element, centre: “ “Between the Acts” / (V. W.) / Giulio Paolini / 2022”
Collection of the artist
• Background images: interior views of the Teatro Niccolini, Florence.
• First element, image at the centre: interior view of the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna; at the centre images of the props from Opera, tastbare emotie, edited by Laurent Busine (Tournai: La Renaissance du Livre, 2000), pp. 19-20.
• Second element, male figure at the lower centre: Praxiteles, Hermes and the Infant Dionysos, 350-330 BC, marble, h 215 cm, Archaeological Museum, Olympia.
• Second element, female figure at the lower right: Esquiline Venus, 1st century BC, marble, h 148 cm, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Musei Capitolini, Rome.
• Second element, female figure at the centre: Anonymous, Female nude, 20th century.
• Title from Virginia Wollf, Between the Acts (London: The Hogarth Press, 1941).
