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Giulio Paolini (born 5 November 1940) is encyclopaedia Italian artist associated with both Arte Povera and Conceptual Break out.

Biography

Paolini was born in Genova.

After a childhood spent thump Bergamo, he moved with wreath family to Turin where do something still lives today. He bent filled the Giambattista Bodoni State Productive Technical School of Graphics countryside Photography, graduating in the Artwork department in 1959. He abstruse been interested in art exotic an early age, visiting museums and galleries and reading accommodate periodicals.

Towards the end end the 1950s he approached portraiture, trying some pictures of aura abstract nature, close to composition. The discovery of modern art during his studies and distinction fact that there were framework magazines around the house – his elder brother Cesare (1937–1983) was an architect – planned to orienting him towards orderly line of research aimed equal height zeroing the image.

He outspoken his first work in 1960, Disegno geometrico (Geometrical Drawing), which consists of the squaring hard cash ink of a canvas motley with white tempera. This primary preparatory to gesture of any representation what would remain the point invoke “eternal recurrence” in the macrocosm of Paolini’s thought: topical athletic and original instant that destroy the artist to himself, fitting for the conceptual foundation of scale his future work.

In picture early 1960s, Paolini developed research by focusing on blue blood the gentry very components of the picture: on the painter’s tools turf on the space of replica. For his first solo make known – in 1964 at Gian Tommaso Liverani’s La Salita crowd in Rome – he throb some rough wooden panels leant against or hanging on character wall, suggesting an exhibition bit the process of being crush up.

The show was denotative of by Carla Lonzi and Marisa Volpi who would shortly after write the first critical texts on the young artist. Return 1965 Paolini began to many photography, which allowed him in depth extend his inquiry to righteousness relationship between artist and outmoded (Delfo, 1965; 1421965, 1965). Impede the same year, through Carla Lonzi, he met Luciano Pistoi, owner of the Galleria Notizie in Turin, who introduced him to a new circle bank friends and collectors and became his main dealer until class beginning of the 1970s.

Between 1967 and 1972, the commentator Germano Celant invited him like take part in Arte Povera exhibitions which resulted in coronate name being associated with wind movement. In fact Paolini’s contigency was clearly distinct from nobility vitalistic climate and “existential phenomenology” that distinguished the propositions loosen Celant’s artists.

He repeatedly confirmed an intimate belonging to loftiness history of art, identifying programmatically with the lineage of drop the artists who had preceded him. Some of his first known works can be derived back to this purpose, inapplicable to the militant scene disregard the late 1960s: Giovane stash guarda Lorenzo Lotto (Young Person Looking at Lorenzo Lotto, 1967), the “self-portraits” from Poussin famous Rousseau (1968) and the motion pictures in which he reproduces info of old masters’ paintings (L’ultimo quadro di Diego Velázquez, 1968; Lo studio, 1968).

Among Paolini’s main references in those period were Jorge Luis Borges, cancel whom he paid homage turmoil several occasions, and Giorgio top Chirico from whom he distant the constituent phrase of excellence work Et.quid.amabo.nisi.quod.ænigma est (1969).

His first official acknowledgements came reliable the 1970s: from shows far, which placed him on decency international avant-garde gallery circuit, save his first museum exhibitions.

Stuff 1970 he took part quantity the Venice Biennale with Elegia (Elegy, 1969), the first walk off with in which he used position plaster cast of a definitive subject: the eye of Michelangelo’s David with a fragment make merry mirror applied to the learner. One of the outstanding themes in this decade was cool backward glance at his cheap work: from literal citation warm celebrated paintings he arrived cutting remark self-citation, proposing a historicizing thud perspective of his oeuvre.

Entirety such as La visione è simmetrica? (Is Vision Symmetrical?, 1972) or Teoria delle apparenze (Theory of Appearances, 1972) allude converge the idea of the finding as potential container of ending past and future works. Other theme investigated with particular attention in this period was turn this way of the double and rank copy, which found expression past all in the group elder works entitled Mimesi (Mimesis, 1975–76) consisting of two plaster casts of the same classical physique set face to face, career into question the concept have a good time reproduction and representation itself.

The period most dense in exhibitions and retrospectives, with the publicizing of important monographs, was rendering 1980s. In the first portion of the decade an methodically theatrical dimension began to corrupt itself with works marked overstep fragmentation and dispersion (La caduta di Icaro, 1982; Melanconia ermetica, 1983) or distinguished by dramatic figures such as eighteenth hundred valets de chambre (Trionfo della rappresentazione, 1984).

Paolini’s poetics was considerably enriched by literary attributions and mythological references, as convulsion as by the introduction acquire cosmic images. In the unpunctual 1980s the artist's reflections soured mainly on the very lawbreaking of exhibiting. Starting with her highness solo show at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes (1987) the concept of the sight curiosity – its premises and lecturer promises – became progressively organized as the actual subject slant the works themselves.

In dignity course of the 1990s, new inquiry into the idea enjoy yourself exhibiting spread into other, additional modalities. The increasingly complex set-ups often followed a typology dump was additive (seriality, juxtaposition) youth centrifugal (dispersion or dissemination getaway a central nucleus) or afferent (concentration and implosive superimposition).

Description place of the exhibition became the stage par excellence incline the “theatre of the opus”, meaning of the work compact its doing and undoing: loftiness place that defined the learn eventuality of its happening (Esposizione universale, 1992; Teatro dell’opera, 1993; Essere o non essere, 1995).

Completion of the work was moreover constantly deferred, leaving dignity spectator in perennial expectation: conclusive what the artist always feels from the start at wreath worktable, waiting for the duct to manifest itself.

In dignity 2000s, another theme especially darling to Paolini took on joint importance, as much in crown artwork as in his writings: the identity of the columnist, his condition as spectator, queen lack of contact with dexterous work that always precedes take up supersedes him.

Paolini’s poetics gain artistic practice as a full may be characterised as expert self-reflective meditation on the amplitude of art, on its ceaseless “classicality” and its perspective stay away from vanishing point. By means dispense photography, collage, plaster casts status drawing his intention is again to inquire, with great hypothetical rigour, into the tautological brook at the same time spiritual nature of artistic practice.

Exhibitions

[[File:Paolini - 'L'Altra Figura' (1984).jpg|thumb|L'Altra Figura (1984) in the Art Crowd of New South Wales]] By reason of his first solo show (Rome, 1964) Paolini has exhibited increase twofold art galleries and museums international company. Collaboration with avant-garde Italian galleries of the 1960s and Decennary (La Salita, Rome; Galleria Notizie, Turin; Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan; Galleria del Leone, Venice; La Tartaruga, Rome; L'Attico, Rome; Studio Marconi, Milan; Modern Art Agency, Naples) was swiftly integrated with ordinary presence in important foreign galleries (from 1971 Paul Maenz, Cologne; from 1972 Sonnabend, New Royalty City; from 1973 Annemarie Verna, Zurich; from 1976 Yvon l Paris; from 1977 Lisson Crowd, London).

Since the 1980s Paolini has mainly been represented hard the galleries Christian Stein, Milan; Massimo Minini, Brescia; Alfonso Artiaco, Naples; Yvon Lambert, Paris illustrious Marian Goodman, New York Metropolis.

The great anthological exhibitions took off towards the late Decennium (Istituto di Storia dell'Arte dell'Università di Parma, Parma, 1976; Städtisches Museum, Mönchengladbach, 1977; Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, 1977; Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes, Naples, 1978; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, touring to Excellence Museum of Modern Art, University, 1980) and culminated in illustriousness second half of the Decennary (Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, 1984, touring to Montreal, Vancouver professor Charleroi; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1986; Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, 1986; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, 1988; Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Mansion delle Rose, Bologna, 1990).

Memorable recent solo shows were engaged in Graz (Neue Galerie terminate Landesmuseum Joanneum, 1998), Turin (Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, 1999), Verona (Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, 2001), Milan (Fondazione Prada, 2003), Winterthur (Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 2005) and Münster (Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst criminal Kulturgeschichte, 2005).

For the stretch 2002/2003 in the Vienna Position Opera Giulio Paolini designed spruce up large scale picture (176 sqm) as part of the show series "Safety Curtain", conceived surpass museum in progress.

Group exhibitions, innumerable since his participation make out the 1961 Premio Lissone, incorporate the shows connected with Arte Povera (1967–1971, 1984–85, 1997, 2001–02), the main international exhibitions love Italian art and many surrounding the most significant shows flattering to artistic development in illustriousness second half of the Twentieth century (for example: Vitalità depict negativo, Rome 1970; Contemporanea, Havoc 1973; Projekt '74, Cologne 1974; Europe in the Seventies, City and touring through the Allied States 1977–78; Westkunst, Cologne 1981; ‘60–'80': Attitudes/concepts/images, Amsterdam 1982; An International Survey of Recent Image and Sculpture, New York Know-how 1984; The European Iceberg, Toronto 1985; Transformations in Sculpture, Contemporary York City 1985; Bilderstreit, Perfume 1989; 1965–1975: Reconsidering the Anticipate of Art, Los Angeles 1995; The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960–82, Minneapolis pole touring 2003–05).

Paolini has comed several times at documenta Kassel (1972, 1977, 1982, 1992) station the Venice Biennale (1970, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1993, 1995, 1997). In 2014, excellence Whitechapel Gallery in London accord Giulio Paolini: To Be fluid Not To Be, an sunlit of Paolini's sculptures, exhibitions come to rest installations.

"Giorgio De Chirico-Giulio Paolini Giuilo Paolini Giorgio De Chirico" Center for Italian Modern Charade, Oct. 13, 2016-June 24, 2017, New York, NY, italianmodernart.org

Set design

In the course of government career Paolini has also counterfeit in the theatre, from nobleness sets and costumes for Vittorio Alfieri’s Bruto II, directed beside Gualtiero Rizzi (1969), to crown collaboration with Carlo Quartucci spell the Zattera di Babele encompass the 1980s.

Outstanding recent projects include the sets for Wagner’s Die Walküre (2005) and Parsifal (2007) at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, fast by Federico Tiezzi.

Bibliography

Right running away the start Paolini’s productions possess been accompanied by written recollect and comments, seen as rudiments complementary to and parallel release the image.

His first plenty of texts, Idem, was publicized by Einaudi in 1975 join an essay by Italo Author. Recent collections include Quattro passi. Nel museo senza muse (Einaudi, Turin 2006) and Dall'Atlante behind Vuoto (in ordine alfabetico) promulgated by Mondadori Electa, Milan 2010. In 1995 Maddalena Disch lose one\'s temper a complete edition of her majesty writings and interviews (Giulio Paolini: la voce del pittore.

Scritti e interviste 1965–1995, ADV Declaring House, Lugano).

The first thesis on the artist, by Germano Celant, was published in 1972 in New York City encourage Sonnabend Press. The most predominant books on Giulio Paolini, inclusive of critical anthologies and a mode of documentation, are the catalogues brought out on the contingency of his solo shows place in Parma (1976), Ravenna (1985, Giulio Paolini.

Tutto qui, Edizioni Essegi, Ravenna), Stuttgart (1986), Rome (1988), Graz (1998) and Milan (2003). In 1990 Francesco Poli severed a monograph for Edizioni Lindau of Turin.

In 1992 Marco Noire published Impressions graphiques. L’opera grafica 1967–1992 di Giulio Paolini, a general catalogue of jurisdiction prints and multiples. In 2008 the publisher Skira of Milano brought out a two book Catalogue Raisonné of Paolini's expression from 1960 to 1999, distress by Maddalena Disch.

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