«Within the walls of my studio I can count on my most reliable work tools (pencils, triangle, compasses…). There I am able to feign existence, to get things sorted out: truth be told, to stage a fake and calculated disorder that makes me think I’m at work» declares Giulio Paolini.
The Galleria Christian Stein presents a solo exhibition by Giulio Paolini (Genoa, 1940) entitled “In studio (ora come allora) [In the Studio (Now as Then)]”. The artist showed for the first time in our gallery in Turin almost sixty years ago, in 1967, and has done so regularly ever since, throughout his career, most recently with the exhibition held in Milan in 2023.
There are six works on show, four of them for the first time, along with collages and preparatory studies. The title of the exhibition, borrowed from one of the works on display, “In studio (ora come allora)”, 2025, refers to one of the themes investigated on this occasion: the studio, as preferred and ideal space for the staging of the work, i.e. the atelier as “Hortus Clausus”, separated from the world, characterized by the suspension of time, and the artist (or his stand-in) who inhabits the studio and brings it to life in the company of the figures of all time that mean most to him.
