Giulio Paolini
Giulio Paolini, born 1940 in Genoa, lives and works in Turin. Giulio Paolini, one of the key figures of the Arte Povera movement, works with the methodology of artist and its presentation. He often dismantles older "art system" in his works – perhaps taking Renaissance perspective or the rhythms of a Baroque facade or formal elements of classical Greek artist – and subverts them without losing the beauty of the original references. The resulting mixed-media or installation pieces always examine the fundamental principles of seeing and being seen in a lyrical, poetic fashion.
Giulio Paolini Editions
Giulio Paolini
A prima vista (At First Sight)
2022/2024
From FACES
Digital pigment print with collage on Hahnemühle 300g rag paper, hand-torn, 60 x 50 cm. Edition of 45 + 8 AP, signed on label verso, numbered on the print itself.
A love 'at first sight' seizes Bacchus and Ariadne, the two 16th-century figures portrayed in the foreground, united by the whiteness of marble and the light of the sky.
EUR 2,000
Giulio Paolini
Chiaroscuro
1998
From Sequences
Two silkscreen and offset lithographs on Gohrsmühle rag paper, folded as passe-partouts, printed inside and outside. Each print 50 x 40 cm (19¾ x 15¾ in), each signed and numbered. Edition of 60.
"All my works revolve around a diaphragm implicit in the image – like an ideal mirror that reflects and reveals the appearance which constitute it. The two prints Chiaroscuro (light-dark) represent two different versions of the same image; a black spot on a white sheet (La Sainte-Vierge by Francis Picabia, 1920) and a white spot on a black sky (fireworks from a photograph by Paolo Mussat Sartor). The first image frames the second and vice versa."
EUR 800
Giulio Paolini
Vis-a-vis (Hera)
1992
From Wall Works
Two halves of a plaster bust on painted wooden pedestals, installed against a white-painted wall. Installation size 169 x 90 x 15 cm (66½ x 35½ x 6 in). Limited to an edition of 10, with a signed and numbered certificate drawing.
