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Teatro dell’Opera, Roma (Trittico ricomposto), 2023

GPC-2307

Teatro dell’Opera, Rome (Recomposed Triptych)

Pencil, reproduction on acetate and collage on paper

70 x 50 cm

Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, centre: “Teatro dell’Opera / Roma / “Trittico ricomposto” / Giulio Paolini / 2023”

Collection of the artist

Eye: engraving portraying the interior of the theatre at Besançon designed by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux; reproduction from Claude Nicolas Ledoux, L’Architecture 2 (Paris: 1804), p. 113.
Image of the timepiece from Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, Robert Clairborne,
Quarta dimensione: tempo (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1967), p. 8 (”L’ora ufficiale americana”).

Stagione 2023-24 (Rome: Teatro dell’Opera, 2023), col. repr. pp. 28-29 (detail), 134 (titled “Gianni Schicchi. L’heure espagnole” and with incorrect technique “matita, acetato e collage su carta grigia”).
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 14/08/2026