Sipario, 1987
GPO-0601
Curtain
Photo print mounted on aluminum, floodlight
Photo print 240 x 300 cm
Dismantled work
For his intervention at the Château d'Oiron, Paolini preliminarily had a photograph taken of the side with a window of the exhibition room he had been assigned. In that same room the artist hung an enlargement of the photograph mounted on an aluminum panel so that it coincided with the point of view of the photograph. Before the window, which was completely darkened, and just behind the window reproduced in the photograph, he placed a spotlight so that the artificial light beam would replace the sun that penetrates the window in the photograph. “The photograph thus literally lowers the curtain of fiction on the evidence of the reality"1, says the artist.
1 G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2004), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 597 p. 612.
| 1987 | Oiron, Château d’Oiron, Meltem, 12 September - 30 October, no catalogue. |
| • | G. Paolini in conversation with M. Disch (2004), in M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 597 p. 612. |
| • | G. Paolini, Suspense. Breve storia del vuoto in tredici stanze (Florence: Hopeful Monster editore, 1988), repr. pp. 178-179. |
| • | Meltem II, exhibition catalogue, Grenoble, Magasin Centre national d’art contemporain (Naples: Electa, 1988), col. repr. p. 27. |
| • | Giulio Paolini. Il “Teatro” dell’opera, exhibition catalogue, Pesaro, Galleria Franca Mancini (Ravenna: Agenzia Editoriale Essegi, 1991), col. repr. p. 41. |
| • | M. Disch, Giulio Paolini. Catalogo ragionato 1960-1999, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira editore, 2008), cat. no. 601 p. 616, col. repr. |
