Habitat, 2021
GPO-1128
Transparent plexiglas display elements, pyrite rock, yellow paper rose, used paint brush, small glass bottle with green ink, carved plexiglas cube, paper fragments, pink sand hourglass, compass, magnifying lens, white plexiglas sheet, white plinth, plexiglas case
Three display elements 21.5 x 11 x 11 cm each, white plexiglas sheet 40 x 40 cm, plinth 90 x 50 x 50 cm, case 50 x 50 x 50 cm, overall dimensions 140 x 50 x 50 cm
Collection of the artist
Three transparent display elements are arranged so that they form a stage for the mise-en-scène of several of the artist’s “objects of affection”: a magnifying glass, a compass, a used paintbrush, ink, an hourglass, fragments of autograph annotations, a rock, and a yellow rose.
While the hourglass refers to the inexorable passing of time, the yellow rose recalls a short story by Jorge Luis Borges (A Yellow Rose, 1960), that describes how the seventeenth-century Italian poet Giambattista Marino, on his deathbed, acknowledged the vanity of putting reality into poetic verses. The rock, instead, recalls a fragment of a meteorite, referring to a cosmic dimension, one that is extraneous to the original spatiotemporal coordinates.
The work tools and the symbolic elements evoke, in extreme synthesis, the artist’s elective habitat: the work environment of his studio and the conceptual dimension of his poetics.
| 2021-22 | Turin, Tucci Russo Chambres d’Art, Giulio Paolini. Qui (da lontano), 28 October 2021 - 29 January 2022. |
