100th edition of “99 words with”

Giulio Paolini

Giulio Paolini’s studio in Turin
Photo credit: Paolo Mussat Sartor
Courtesy Giulio and Anna Paolini Foundation

THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
99 WORDS WITH GIULIO PAOLINI

In an instant
I live here, I’m writing you from here and here
I intend to remain from now on.
From here, yes, precisely from here
one must look.
It is here that the mind rests:
not even a rampart of a thing,
a person, not even a sound,
announces itself in a void
full of nothing that
neither sees nor hears…
Yet it’s all normal:
seriously, it’s really like that.

[Giulio Paolini. Recital, Scritture in versi, 1987-2020, Vol. II, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, 2020, p.56]