Lot 156 : Giulio Paolini (b. 1940)
Auction Location: United Kingdom - 2001
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Description:
Delos each numbered '1' to '9'; the ninth signed, titled and dated 'Giulio Paolini Delos 1979' (on the stretcher) colour crayon, pencil and paper collage on canvas each: 153/4 x 23 5/8in. (39.8 x 60cm.) overall: 471/4 x 70 7/8in. (120 x 180cm.) Executed in 1979 nine (9) PROVENANCE Studio Marconi, Milan. Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1979. LITERATURE Jean Bernier Gallery 1977 - 1998, Athens 1998 (illustrated in colour, unpaged). EXHIBITION Milan, Studio Marconi, Atto unico in tre quadri, 1978. Athens, Jean Bernier 1979 Brussels, Galerie Albert Baronian, Giulio Paolini, 1984. Brussels, Galerie Artiscope, Les occasions manqu‚es, 1995. Brussels, Galerie Albert Artiscope, V.I.P.P. Very Important Poetic Pictures, 1996. NOTES Sold with a photo-certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. "The plaster cast and the photograph are equivalents for me because they represent two techniques which reproduce models of images. Even though they are different materials, they have the same function - to produce a simulacrum. A photograph and a plaster cast tend to give an absolute illusion of another thing, but I have always been careful to reveal the material itself. In other words, a photograph is a skin, an intangible diaphragm which provides you with this miracle of representation of something. However, it is also a piece of paper. Similarly, a plaster cast can reproduce something which is in Greece. Yet, plaster is also a material you can touch and therefore when it breaks it is revealed for what it is. It becomes an image not of what it recounts but what it truly is." (Giulio Paolini: Interview with Susan Taylor in The Print Collector's Newsletter no. 5, New York, November/December 1984).
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