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GIULIO PAOLINI

Born in Genoa in 1940, Giulio Paolini is one of Italy’s best-known and internationally established artists. His research, ascribable to conceptual art, has always been characterized by reflection on the complex relationships between artwork and viewer in a refined play of references rich in quotations. The analysis of the action of seeing, and observing, suggests the creation of a linguistic structure between artist and observer that is recreated whenever the latter places himself in front of the work of art.Giulio Paolini speaks through his works. He reflects, narrates and analyzes himself on the walls, glimpses himself in the perspectives of his paintings, mirrors himself in the sets of his installations, lives in the allusions of his quotations, and defines himself without contradiction in the entire body of his works. From the very beginning, his investigation is concerned with the structure of vision, and his research is oriented on the analysis of the constituent foundations of artistic creation. The works in the collection trace a path in his expressive language, which, while not intended to be exhaustive, offers itself as an interpretation of the problematic fields opened by his reflections and identifies the absolute identity between author and work as the foundation of his artistic magisterium.