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La pietra filosofale, 2010

GPO-0998

The Philosopher’s Stone

Reflecting plexiglas platform, burnished plexiglas cube, directors chair, white pencil on black paper, xerox reproductions in negative, sheet of white drawing paper, black pencil, nylon thread

Four reflecting plexiglas parts 15 x 110 x 110 cm each, burnished plexiglas cube 90 x 90 x 90 cm, sheet of paper 70 x 70 cm, overall dimensions on floor 220 x 220 cm, overall height variable

Collection of the artist

2010-11 Lugano, Studio Dabbeni, Giulio Paolini, 12 November 2010 - 26 February 2011, col. repr. in temporale 70 (Lugano), November, 2010, pp. 32 (detail), 34 (exhibition views).
2016-17 Milan, Galleria Christian Stein, Giulio Paolini. Fine, 10 November 2016 - 29 April 2017, cited in the checklist of exhibited works p. 160, col. repr. pp. 46-47, 48-49, 54-55, 57 (exhibition views), entry by M. Disch p. 160; exhibited at the venue in Pero.
Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2023), col. repr. pp. 276-277 (exhibition view Milan 2016).
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 27/07/2026