GIULIO PAOLINI
OPERE SU CARTA: UN LABORATORIO GESTUALE PER LA PERCEZIONE DELL’IMMAGINE
OPERE SU CARTA: UN LABORATORIO GESTUALE PER LA PERCEZIONE DELL’IMMAGINE
Turin: Prinp – Editoria d’Arte 2.0, 2017
The volume, edited by Ilaria Bernardi, is the first study dedicated to the works on paper by Giulio Paolini (Genoa, 1940). It investigates the actual creative process of the artist, bringing to light for the first time his distinctive gestures, iconographic and conceptual sources, as well as the value of the materials used. The book focuses on his first twenty years of activity on paper, from 1960 to 1980, since, unlike the subsequent activity, it constitutes a more independent laboratory from the other types of production he made during the same years – that is, paintings, sculptures, installations, and graphic editions -, revealing at the same time a gestural repertoire that underlies the value he attributes to drawing. Numerous and unpublished statements by Paolini collected by the author complete the reading of the works examined and constitute an important testimony for the present and for the future.
Giulio Paolini is one of the best known and most successful Italian artists at an international level. With reference to his activity, the term “works on paper” designates a corpus of drawings and small and medium-sized collages, hitherto unexplored, largely unpublished and never the subject of scientific research, or publications, or reasoned cataloging.