Scope and Contents WEB page: Until 1960 Paolini trained as a set-designer and graphic designer, then he had a preoccupation with art and collages in order to analyze artistic means as well as to examine linguistic systems. The first documented work, Geometric Design, stems from 1960. Since 1965 Paolini has picked art and the history of art and their possibilities of conveying message as a central theme. In 1964 his first individual exhibition took place in the Galleria La Salita in Rome, since then he has been represented in numerous individual and group exhibitions in Italy and other countries. In 1967 he was a participant of the first exhibition of Arte Povera in the Galleria Bertesca in Genova and he took part, inter alia, in several Documenta-exhibitions in Kassel as well as in the Biennale di Venezia in 1970 and 1997. Paolini is concentrated on the phenomenon of seeing, touching themes such as space, time, perspective or the cultural conditioning of author and observer. In 1970 he started to...

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This catalogue depicts images of each one of the works offered for sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Influenced by the Holocaust, Metzger created "an art that aimed at introducing destruction as a means of transforming peoples' thoughts and feelings, not only about art, but to use art to change peoples' relation to themselves and society." Metzger is best known for organizing the Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS) in London in September 1966. The main object was to focus attention on the element of destruction in Happenings and other art forms including the Viennese Actionists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.