Giulio Paolini's 'Fuori Tempo' at Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Rome

Giulio Paolini (Genoa, 1940) presents 'Fuori Tempo' at Valentina Bonomo Gallery in Rome, an exhibition that assembles installations, collages, drawings, and sculptures. The works disrupt temporal coordinates through a deliberate fragmentation of space. Paolini's approach echoes the metaphysical allegorizing of de Chirico, but shifts perspective to touch on the Pre-Raphaelites, Manet, and Watteau. Key motifs include cut-outs, reverses, easels, and a Venus seen from behind. Figures are paired not with shadows but with white silhouettes. Drawings are scattered on the floor. Devices like lenses and frames encase clocks, palettes, and sheets, suggesting a vertical mise en abyme that evokes the ecstatic idea of boundary dissolution. The exhibition is reviewed by Francesca de Paolis for Artribune.