Naples, from Alfonso Artiaco the new solo exhibition of Giulio Paolini: Fuori Quadro

by Redazione , published on 03/03/2021
Categories: Exhibitions / Disclaimer
From March 8 to April 24, the exhibition 'Fuori Quadro,' a new solo show by Giulio Paolini, one of Italy's leading contemporary artists, is being held at the Alfonso Artiaco Gallery in Naples.

From March 8 to April 24, 2021, the fifth solo exhibition of Giulio Paolini (Genoa, 1940) is held at the Alfonso Artiaco Gallery in Naples: after the previous ones held in 2005, 2009, 2014 and 2018, Giulio Paolini, with Fuori Quadro, is now offering eight works, four of which were made for the occasion, along with several previously unpublished collages.

All the works in the exhibition are characterized by the presence of references to art history (Jean Antoine Watteau, Édouard Manet, Giorgio De Chirico),ancient art (the Greek sculptor Polyclitus, the city of Pompeii) and mythology (Icarus and Antiope). As is always the case in Paolini’s research, the goal is not to give rise to a mere celebration of the past, but to give evidence to fragments that are still significant in current art: thus, the fragments emerge from history with a metaphysical fixity and question the passage of time.

“My references to the history of painting,” declares Giulio Paolini, “do not depend on a taken party. I do not propose to analyze the past, to make exegesis. I myself am a prisoner of an inventory of figures. I am usually confronted with images of artists one is in the habit of calling classics. Artists who had a particular attitude with images: rather than proposing them, they waited for them, at a certain distance; mine is an undifferentiated reception, a memory that wants to draw on the very making of the work, I am attracted to the myth of why art is made.”

For information about the exhibition, visit the Alfonso Artiaco Gallery website.

Naples, from Alfonso Artiaco the new solo exhibition of Giulio Paolini: Fuori Quadro
Naples, from Alfonso Artiaco the new solo exhibition of Giulio Paolini: Fuori Quadro


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