Giulio Paolini's Site-Specific Installations at Rome's Accademia Nazionale di San Luca

Giulio Paolini (Genoa, 1940) presents 'A come Accademia' at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome, a series of six site-specific installations exploring the history and concept of the academic institution. The exhibition, curated by Marco Tirelli and Antonella Soldaini, features works that engage with themes of fall, doubling, fragmentation, unknowability, and deconstruction. A banner on Palazzo Carpegna's facade depicts a mythological girl throwing frames. Paolini's installations include references to Platonic ideals, the myth of Sisyphus, and the fallen head of Phidias's Venus, juxtaposed with geometric precision. In the courtyard, a female statue is saved from indecision by geometry, facing Filippo Albacini's 'Achille morente' (1854). The exhibition runs at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, founded in 1593 by Federico Zuccari. Paolini's work is described as a centrifugal, open system that suggests no form can match imagination, with indeterminacy allowing infinite solutions.