Sotto le stelle, 1985-88
GPO-0615
Under the Stars
Medal display case, gilded nails
Medal display case 38 x 48 cm, overall dimensions variable
The LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut
Archive no. 002744
A medal holder in gilded wood, with blue velvet inside studded with gilded hooks, contains a large number of golden nails piled up on the lower edge, recalling the profile of a landscape against the background of a starry sky. The regular arrangement of the hooks inside the medal holder is offset by a whole multitude of golden nails scattered all around the wall, alluding to the starry sky.
The work is part of a series of thirteen variants, made between 1985 and 2025, which are distinguished by the presence of one or more medal holders, their dimensions, and, above all, the intervention that is associated with them (GPO-0556, GPO-0563, GPO-0594, GPO-0595, GPO-0606, GPO-0615, GPO-0632, GPO-0717, GPO-0718, GPO-0891, GPO-1096, GPO-1099, GPO-1182).
| 1988 | Zurich, Galerie Annemarie Verna, Giulio Paolini. Sotto le stelle, 22 April - 4 June. |
| 1989 | Hartford (Connecticut), Wadsworth Atheneum, New Work from Europe, [unknown dates], no catalogue. |
| 2012-13 | Naples, MADRE Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Sol LeWitt. L'artista e i suoi artisti, 15 December 2012 - 1 April 2013, touring to: Metz, Centre Pompidou, 19 April - 29 July, no catalogue. |
| 2016 | New York, The Drawing Center, Drawing Dialogues: The Sol LeWitt Collection, 15 April - 12 June, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 238, col. repr. p. 90. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 615 p. 632, col. repr. |
