GIULIO PAOLINI. In the Studio (Now as Then)

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 nine works on show, six 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 conclusus, 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.