Giulio Paolini

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Lisson Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of Italian artist Giulio Paolini. Often linked to the Arte Povera movement, Paolini is best known for a more strictly conceptual practice. The exhibition will present a new body of mixed media work, which investigates the figure of the author and its role in the creation of the work of art. For Paolini, the idea of the work is an autonomous entity" and the picture plane is a surface that is a depository of every possible projection of an image. Therefore, the author steps aside, he is "mute, absent, the voice is the voice of the work: but the work of art gives voice neither to the world nor the subject