Gli occhi pieni di lacrime, 1983-84
GPO-0531
The Eyes Full of Tears
Pencil and collage on paper
Three framed parts 70 x 50 cm each, overall dimensions 70 x 155 cm
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso of the central element, centre: “Giulio Paolini / Gli occhi / pieni di lacrime / 1983-84”
The LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut
Archive no. 010504
The perspective made in pencil on the assemblage of three sheets placed at short intervals is inhabited by a cut-out figure of Jean-Antoine Watteau's L’Indifférent. The collage of torn fragments, scattered starting from the actor's eyes "in tears", disseminates on the three sheets the remaining part of the reproduction of the eighteenth-century painting.
The title – the artist explains – expresses the emotion of the figure at the moment of his entrance onto the scene in the illusory space of the representation.
Jean-Antoine Watteau, L’Indifférent, 1716, oil on wood, 25 x 19 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris; reproduction from reproduction from L’opera completa di Watteau. Classici dell’arte 21 (Milan: Rizzoli, 1968), plate XI.
| 1985 | Rome, Galleria Pieroni, Giulio Paolini. Giochi d’acqua, from 15 February. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 531 p. 543, repr. |
| • | Galleria Pieroni 1970-1992 ([Spoltore]: Di Paolo Edizioni, 2016), repr. p. 273 (with incorrect caption referred to the other work published on the same page). |
