L’autore che credeva di esistere (sipario: buio in sala), 2013
GPO-1031
The Author Who Thought He Existed (Curtain: Darkness Falls Over the Auditorium)
Black-painted wooden trestles, plexiglas sheets, chair, xerox reproductions, videoprojection, primed canvases, plexiglas cases, frames, pencil on wall
Overall dimensions site-specific
Collection of the artist
• Joshua Reynolds, Self-Portrait, 1747-48, oil on canvas, 63 x 74 cm, National Portrait Gallery, London.
• Antonio Canova, Ebe, 1816, marble, h 166 cm, Musei di San Domenico, Forlì.
• Jan Vredeman de Vries, Perspective (Leiden-The Hague: Beuckel Nieulandt for Hendrick Hondius, 1604-05); reproduction from Jan Vredeman de Vries, Perspective (New York: Dover Publications, 1968), n. pag.
• Image of the timepiece from Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, Robert Clairborne, Quarta dimensione: tempo (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1967), p. 8 (”L’ora ufficiale americana”).
• Q. Lollius Alcamenes, mid-1st century AD, marble funerary relief, 25 x 33 cm, Villa Albani, Rome; reproduction from Opere di G. G. Winckelmann, prima edizione italiana complete, vol. XIII (Prato: Fratelli Giachetti, 1830-34), plate CLXV, no. 364 (“Quinto Lollio Alcamene Scultore”).
• Antonio Canova, Genio funebre from the Sepolcro di Clemente XIII, 1787-92, marble, 820 x 630 x 254 cm, Basilica di San Pietro, Rome; reproduction from L’opera completa di Canova. Classici dell’arte 213 (Milan: Rizzoli, 1976), plate XI.
• Eye: engraving featuring the interior of the theatre at Besançon designed by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux; reproduction from Claude Nicolas Ledoux, L’Architecture, vol. II (Paris: 1804), p. 113.
• The Temple of the Sibyl, Tivoli, unknown source.
• Photograph of Giulio Einaudi’s glasses taken by Paolo Mussat Sartor, 1994.
| 2013-14 | Rome, MACRO Museo d'arte contemporanea Roma, Giulio Paolini. Essere o non essere, 29 November 2013 - 9 March 2014, touring to: London, Whitechapel Gallery, 9 July - 14 September 2014, cited in the checklist of exhibited works pp. 154 (Rome) / 155 (London), col. repr. pp. 151, 152 (exhibition views in Rome), entry by M. Disch p. 150-151, referred to in the foreword by I. Blazwick p. 14 and in the texts by B. Pietromarchi p. 41-42, G. Guercio p. 65, B. Schwabsky p. 81, I. Bernardi p. 96; in the exhibition guide entry by M. Disch pp. 38-39, not. repr. |
| 2015 | New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, Giulio Paolini, 6 February - 13 March, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 165, col. repr. pp. 10-18 (exhibition views, con particolari), referred to in the text by M. Disch pp. 41-42. |
| • | G. Paolini in the interview with E. Del Drago, Giulio Paolini. Essere o non essere, presented as part of the radio programme A3 Il formato dell'arte, RAI Radio 3, 1 December 2013. |
| • | G. Paolini, “L’autore che credeva di esistere (sipario: buio in sala)”, in Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Rome, MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, and London, Whitechapel Gallery (Rome: Quodlibet Edizioni, 2014), p. 32. |
| • | B. Satre, Giulio Paolini. Essere o non essere, 1994-95. In collezione 1 (Turin-Mantua: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and Corraini Edizioni, 2014), p. 28, col. repr. p. 28 (detail). |
| • | A. Tinterri, “Strumenti di ricerca. Giulio Paolini”, in #AImagazine – The Art Review 76 (Parma), Summer, 2017, col. repr. p. 12. |
| • | Paolini. I Grandi illustrati del Corriere della Sera. Arte contemporanea – I protagonisti 8, edited by F. Gualdoni (Milan: RCS MediaGroup S.p.a., 2022), p. 76, col. repr. p. 77. |
| • | F. Guzzetti, “Era finora: distanze e intersezioni”, in Giulio Paolini. Era finora (Milan: Edizioni Fondazione Luigi Rovati and Johan & Levi editore, 2022), pp. 59-61, col. repr. p. 22. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), col. repr. p. 265 (exhibition view Rome 2013). |
