(born in Genoa in 1940)
Più vero del vero, 1995, black pencil, plexiglass theca, white canvas, graphite and collage of 9 papers on wall. Plexiglass: 100 x 130 cm; canvas: 50 x 65 cm; graphite rectangle on wall: 150 x 200 cm + 9 papers (variable comprehensive measures), (MCC)

Photo certificate of the artist.

Provenance:
Atelier Giulio Paolini
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
E. Menzio Collection, Monaco (label on the reverse of one paper)
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Rome, Giulio Paolini, Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, April 1995.

Literature:
Giulio Paolini, Von heute bis gestern/da oggi a ieri, catalogue of the exhibition at Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1998, p. 320, with ill.;
Gian Enzo Sperone. Torino, Roma, New York, 35 anni di mostre tra Europa e America, Hopefulmonster, Turin, 2000, vol. II, p. 447, with ill.;
Giulio Paolini, Quattro passi nel museo senza muse, Giulio Einaudi, Turin, 2006, p. 75, with ill.; Maddalena Disch, Giulio Paolini catalogo ragionato, Skira, 2008, vol. II, 1983–1999, no. 755, with ill.

“In the centre of a plexiglass display case containing a prepared cloth, a black pencil approaches the canvas without, however, touching its surface, as if it wanted to pause before the moment of contact. The display case is surrounded by a larger frame drawn on the wall with a pencil. Depending on the available space, the work contains a few drawing sheets, some of them with traces in pencil of other putative squares, which are scattered and progressively spaced out from the interior of the display case towards the exterior. ‘Truer than truth - that is, the moment of truth’ constructed not so much by the traces that the pencil will still leave behind on the upper surface of the canvas, as by the circumstance that the pencil is directly aimed towards the target, in order to capture the simple possibility of this future occurrence.“
The artist in conversation with M. Disch, December 2005