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Diadema, 1993
GPO-0716
Diadem
Golden card-stock diadem, tempera on paper, brass display, collage on paper, plexiglas sheet and case
31 x 31 x 31 cm
Private collection, Rome
A brass stand and a small plexiglas sheet serve as a support for a diadem of laurel leaves made of golden cardstock. A golden sheet on the front is held in the diadem to evoke the shapeless semblances of an ancient, time-worn mask. The assemblage is placed on a reproduction in a yellow tone – torn and applied so that it is staggered on a blank sheet of drawing paper – reproducing a partial view of the exhibition space of the Genoese gallery Locus Solus, where the work was shown for the first time.
The same theme was also formulated in an earlier variant, made in 1989-90 (GPO-0670).
| 1993-94 | Genoa, Galleria Locus Solus, Giulio Paolini. Locus Solus, 22 October 1993 - 30 June 1994, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. A5 p. 71, col. repr. p. 15. |
| 2019 | Rome, Casoli De Luca, Oro d’Italia, 13 April - 13 July, cited in the checklist of exhibited works no. 69, col. repr. no. 69. |
| 2024-25 | Perugia, Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, L'età dell’oro. I capolavori dorati della Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria incontrano l'Arte Contemporanea, 26 October 2024 - 19 January 2025, col. repr. p. 129, referred to in the texts by V. Picchiarelli p. 45, C. D’Orazio p. 127. |
| • | L. Somaini, C. Cerritelli, Jewelry by artists in Italy 1945 – 1995 (Milan: Electa-Gingko, 1995), p. 52, not repr. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 716 p. 732, col. repr. |
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 15/05/2026
