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Giulio Paolini (1940) 
Professions: Painter; Sculptor
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Giulio Paolini (b. 1940)
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Giulio Paolini (b. in 1940)
Biography: Paolini
(b Genoa, 5 Nov 1940). Italian painter and sculptor. He trained as a graphic designer and in the 1960s reacted against the picturesqueness of Art informel by concentrating on the basic components of painting: canvas, frame, paint of a single colour or even the abolition of paint in favour of a completely bare surface. In Geometric Drawing (1960; see 1980 exh. cat., p. 10), for instance, he simply bisected the rectangular with four ink lines running vertically, horizontally and diagonally, an allusion to the traditional squaring up of an image for transfer. The themes he introduced in these works, pertaining especially to the problematic relationship between a copy (deemed inauthentic) and an original work, were central to everything he produced in later years.
Grove Art excerpts - Electronic ©2003, Oxford Art Online
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