GIULIO PAOLINI
STAND F4
(1940, Genoa, Italy)
Eclisse, 1975, pencil on primed canvas, reversed canvas, cm.h. 120 x 180
A historic work by Giulio Paolini from 1975 that perfectly encapsulates the artistic vision of one of the most important Italian artists of the 20th century. On a “classically” primed canvas, the artist creates a room in perspective with thin pencil lines. On the back wall, an inverted canvas hides a painting within a painting, in a representative eclipse where the hidden and the visible play a game of hide-and-seek.
Giulio Paolini has collaborated with Christian Stein since 1967.
Giulio Paolini lives and works in Turin. He is one of the most influential artists of his generation and a pioneer of the Arte Povera movement. His use of various materials (including plaster casts, drawings, objects, and photographs) symbolizes the signs and images of time. The history of art and its images are utilized as a medium, creating a poetic language made of references and fragments.
His work is held in the most prestigious collections worldwide, including:
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Gallery, London; The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Neue Galerie Graz, Graz; MUMOK, Wien; Musée d’Art Moderne, Bruxelles; S.M.A.K, Gand; École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris; Fonds National d’art contemporain, Paris; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Staatlich Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Museo del Novecento, Milan; Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan; Museo Madre, Naples; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Art Institute, Chicago.