Giulio PAOLINI

"The work precedes the artist's intervention."

Giulio Paolini is a painter and sculptor associated with Arte Povera and conceptual art. From the 1960s, he developed a series of works that questioned the place of the painting in space: his canvases, bare or embedded in one another, present the “painting as an image of itself”. Making references to classical Antiquity, mixing the most traditional techniques with the most contemporary materials and forms of expression (furniture, performances, collages, installation), Paolini invents an extremely personal language whose duplication and fragmentation become its most common motifs.