«The imagination is the antechamber, a bit in disorder, of that room where the work will appear afterwards » (Giulio Paolini). Waiting Rooms is the title of a series of collages that Paolini has realized around the same scene: a couch and two small armchairs of his studio of Turin, in street Po, that become the background of imaginations, visions, characters – bookstands and easels, crumpled worlds and drawings, planets and colours. “Waiting” as meaningful interstice in which art “awaits” (in the sense of “attaching”). As we can read in the words of Andrea Cortellessa, author of the text of the catalogue, «…waiting Rooms are in his work the place of maximum meta-pictorial concentration, and, at the same time, of the maximum reclusion in the intérieur. …
As in the cosmos of Blanchot and Borges…in the one of Paolini the place where you stay fulfills the miracle of stopping time and, together, of annihilating the individual identity».
The volume was published in the occasion of the homonym exhibition in the Repetto Gallery of London (20 June – 20 September 2019), where 25 works of the artist, dated 2011-2012, were selected and reproduced in the book, accompanied also by in-depth sheet, if it was necessary.
