Giulio Paolini attended the Giambattista Bodoni State Industrial Technical School of Graphics and Photography, graduating in the Graphics department in 1959.
15 Facts About Giulio Paolini
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Giulio Paolini had been interested in art from an early age, visiting museums and galleries and reading art periodicals.
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Giulio Paolini did his first work in 1960, Disegno geometrico, his precocious artistic expression which consists of the squaring of 8 marks made by pencil and compass and 3 elongated ink lines stretching the entirety of a white tempera background on canvas.
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Giulio Paolini would want to say that no work he could ever do would surpass Disegno geometrico conceptually, and that every work he had and would make would both intentionally and unintentionally callback to it as the root of his artistic vision.
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Giulio Paolini put forth the idea that he can't and has no intention of trying to escape Disegno geometrico, it set him off in a course as a conceptual artist that can't really be stopped.
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In 1965 Giulio Paolini began to use photography, which allowed him to extend his inquiry to the relationship between artist and work.
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In fact Giulio Paolini's position was clearly distinct from the vitalistic climate and "existential phenomenology" that distinguished the propositions of Celant's artists.
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Giulio Paolini repeatedly declared an intimate belonging to the history of art, identifying programmatically with the lineage of all the artists who had preceded him.
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Giulio Paolini's poetics was considerably enriched by literary attributions and mythological references, as well as by the introduction of cosmic images.
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Since the Galleria Notizie show Giulio Paolini has exhibited in art galleries and museums worldwide.
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In 1971, Giulio Paolini had an exhibition by the title of Un Quadro, where he showcased 14 photographic replications of Disegno geometrico, the works were showcased around the exhibition leading the audience to cycle through the varying forms of the precocious work being cited.
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Since the 1980s Giulio Paolini has mainly been represented by the galleries Christian Stein, Milan; Massimo Minini, Brescia; Alfonso Artiaco, Naples; Yvon Lambert, Paris and Marian Goodman, New York City.
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Giulio Paolini has appeared several times at documenta Kassel and the Venice Biennale.
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In 2014, the Whitechapel Gallery in London staged Giulio Paolini: To Be or Not To Be, an exhibition of Paolini's sculptures, exhibitions and installations.
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Right from the start Giulio Paolini's productions have been accompanied by written reflections and comments, seen as elements complementary to and parallel with the image.