Guilio Paolini

born 1940 in Genova, Italy
lives and works in Torino, Italy

"(...) Because of this concentration on the experience of the real, he eschews the painted canvas or the sculpture. Believing that the work of art lies in the audience´s experience of it, he concentrates on the traces and documentation of artworks, creating a stage-set for an exibition, adorned with props that point to art but are not art. The absence of the artwork paradoxically allows the experience of art to occur."

quoted from: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Arte Povera, London 1999, S. 37

Sample Work
 

Intervallo, 1986 Plaster cast approximately 60 x 80 x 20 cm, without pedestal < Click on Image for larger view