Giulio Paolini

Giulio Paolini was born in Genoa in 1940 and lives in Turin.
Often associated with the arte povera movement, he is distinguished by artistic practices that belong to a more strictly conceptual context (...) Paolini developed complex research centred as much on the tools of artistic creation as on the figure of the artist as language operator and the spectator's accomplice. Marked by a declared theatricality his works stage the awaiting of an unknown image which, in search of a model at once new and ancient, constantly eludes its own definition. Citation, duplication and fragmentation - employed as expedients for staging the distance from the finished model and for making the work a "theatre of evocation" - are among the main features of his modus operandi