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Biography
Italian painter and sculptor trained in graphic design. In the 60s, he recovered the picturesque of Informal Art in concentrating on the basic components of painting: canvas, frame and paint in one colour. Paolini has been considered one of the greatest exponents of Arte Povera since its appearance at the end of the 60s. Although he shares a taste for conceptual ideas with other artists during the 70s, Paolini focused far more on the study of the artistic system registered in museums. The references to Classicism and Neo-Classicism reformulated his ideas on relations between past and present as well as between replica and original. These works anticipate the revivalist tendencies that dominated art at the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s. Between 1972 and 1992, he took part in documenta 5, 6, 8 and 9, in Kassel. In 1984, he took part in the Venice Biennale, in 1985 he exhibited individually at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and, in 1991, at the Castello de Rivoli in Turin.
Exhibitions
Giulio Paolini
Marian Goodman Gallery (NY), USA
01-10-1987 ~ 30-10-1987
Building/Unbuilding/Inhabit - works of The Berardo Collection
Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal
29-04-2005 ~ 15-01-2006
Arte Povera in The Berardo Collection
Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal
15-10-2005 ~ 31-12-2005
The Berardo Collection
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Face - a - Face
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
02-10-2001 ~ 30-04-2001
Arriscar o Real
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal
08-06-2009 ~ 30-09-2009
Bibliography
Arte Povera in The Berardo Collection , 2005
Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas
Christie's, Contemporary Art (Part II), 1993
Published by Christie's
Giulio Paolini, 1987
Published by Marian Goodman Gallery
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo
ISBN 9729739105
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