Polvere, 1992
GPO-0702
Dust
Counting lens, plexiglas sheet, drawings, primed canvas
Dismantled work
Arranged at the centre of a primed canvas, one on top of the other and staggered, are three studies for the work made during the same year entitled Esposizione universale (GPO-0705), held down by a plexiglas sheet. In the area corresponding to a small cut in the middle of the sheet and in the three images is a linen tester. Instead of bringing the drawings into closer view it reveals the dust that is deposited on the canvas in that spot through the empty square. In the artist's own words: “The magnifying glass offers a clear picture of a portion of the void that seems to announce the disappearance, or 'pulverization', of all the images".1
The same theme was formulated in two other variants, one from the same year (GPO-0703), the other from 1994 (GPO-0727).
1 G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2005), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 702 p. 715.
| 1992-93 | Milan, Galleria Christian Stein, Giulio Paolini, 27 October 1002 - 24 February 1993. |
| 1993 | Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Three Artistic Generations in Contemporary Italy, 2 December 1993 - 9 January 1994, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 65, col. repr. p. 54. |
| • | G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2005), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 702 p. 715. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, exhibition catalogue, Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1998), repr. p. 20 (erroneously dated “1994”). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 702 p. 715, col. repr. |
