Fabio Belloni
Giulio Paolini. Disegno geometrico, 1960
IN / collezione 6
In 1960, twenty-year-old Giulio Paolini made an artwork with the help of a handbook, a ruling pen, and a compass. He used ink to square the white-painted canvas, and called it Disegno geometrico. A few years later he acknowledged that that modestly sized painting had marked his debut as an artist: a starting point, but also a never-ending return – both mental and formal – for each and every one of his works. Why did such an early, essential artwork become the cornerstone of Paolinian poetics? Fabio Belloni is the first to put forward an in-depth critical reading of Disegno geometrico. He explores the work’s genesis and meanings, and the powerful role it has played in the artist’s oeuvre as well as in contemporary art.
The book constitutes the sixth volume of the “In collezione” series, curated by the Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini and dedicated to in-depth monographic studies on selected works of Giulio Paolini.
isbn: 9788875707620
With: Fondazione Giulio e Anna Paolini
Special process: original design accordion-folded insert created by Giulio Paolini
Languages: Italian and English
Binding: paperback stitched with long flaps
Pages: 128
Width: 13
Height: 21
Edition: 2019