Polvere, 1992
GPO-0703
Dust
Counting lens, plexiglas sheets, fotocolor
Two plexiglas sheets 50 x 50 cm each, overall dimensions 5 x 70 x 65 cm
Collection of the artist
Two plexiglas sheets arranged so that they are staggered hold four colour transparencies, taken while the work Esposizione universale (GPO-0705) from the same year was being made. In the area corresponding to a small cut made in the middle of the upper sheet and in the colour transparencies 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 one 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 | Paris, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Giulio Paolini, 28 November - 24 December. |
| 1995 | New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, Giulio Paolini, 7 January - 4 February. |
| 1998 | Graz, Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum, Giulio Paolini. Von heute bis gestern / Da oggi a ieri, 4 April - 31 May, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 19 p. 182 (erroneously dated “1994-95”), not repr. |
| 2005 | Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Giulio Paolini. Esposizione universale, 23 April - 24 June, touring to: Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Giulio Paolini. Esposizione universale, 1 October 2005 - 8 January 2006, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 5 p. 86, col. repr. n. pag. (exhibition view). |
| 2008 | Rome, Spazio Risonanze, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Risonanze #2. Giulio Paolini & Fabio Vacchi, 9 May - 15 June, not repr. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 30/40. A Selection of Forty Artists from Thirty Years of Exhibitions at Marian Goodman Gallery, exhibition catalogue, New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, 2007, col. repr. p. 247 (exhibition view New York 1995). |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 703 p. 715, col. repr. |
