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GPO-1027

On the Threshold

Bronze-patinated plaster cast, plexiglas plinth, gold ink on primed canvas, pencil on wall

Canvas 160 x 240 cm, plinth 122 x 40 x 20 cm, overall dimensions variable

Private collection

Kassel Apollo, first half of the 2nd century AD Roman copy of the 460-455 BC original by Phidias, Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Kassel.

2013 Rome, Giacomo Guidi Arte Contemporanea, Giulio Paolini. Sulla soglia, 15 February - 6 April, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 58, col. repr. on cover (detail) e pp. 29, 37, referred to in the text by L. Pratesi p. 24.
2014 London, Whitechapel Gallery, Giulio Paolini. To Be or Not to Be, 9 July - 14 September 2014, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 155, col. repr. p. 149 (exhibition view Rome 2013), entry by M. Disch p. 148.
• G. Paolini in the interview with G. Simongini, "L'arte non è intrattenimento", in Il Tempo, 17 February 2013, p. 13.
• G. Paolini in the interview with P. Ferri, “Ai nostri microfoni, Giulio Paolini”, in Artribune online, 11 March 2013.
• R. Lambarelli, “Giulio Paolini. L'autore che credeva di esistere”, in Arte e critica 20, no. 73 (Rome), January-March, 2013, col. repr. p. 44 (exhibition view Rome 2013).
• E. Franz, “’Vedo e non vedo’”, in Giulio Paolini. Vedo e non vedo. In tema 1 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2014), p. 44, col. repr. p. 12 (exhibition view London 2014).
• Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), col. repr. p. 268 (exhibition view London 2014).
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 28/09/2026