The Accademia Nazionale di San Luca presents the exhibition Giulio Paolini from 20 April to 15 July 2023. A come Accademia , conceived by Marco Tirelli and Antonella Soldaini and curated by her. The exhibition is organized under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic.

The exhibition, promoted and organized by the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca , opens a few months after the artist was awarded the Praemium Imperiale for Painting, Tokyo 2022, and takes on "an emblematic sense because it stands as the umpteenth and happy confirmation of the supreme artistic merits of Giulio Paolini, which have very few terms of comparison in the artistic panorama of our time”, as stated by the Secretary General of the Academy Claudio Strinati.

The artist presents six unpublished works specially created for Palazzo Carpegna, where the public is guided through a conceptual itinerary made up of different media – painting, photography and sculpture – which create an analytical and poetic space.

An exhibition that investigates art in its essential components – the artist, the work, the institution, the public and the relationship with history – hosted not by chance within the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, which with this exhibition intends to show the process of transparent sedimentation of the making of the work, in which the past represents both the future of artistic creation and the very basis on which it stands.

Precisely for these reasons Giulio Paolini more than others best expresses the dualism that binds the work to the word, beauty to the artist's gaze, understanding to the public's reading and questions the meaning and current value of academic teaching: “Faced with an ever more noisy present, with the continuous alarms or amplified exultation of the world of communication – declares the artist in his text written for the exhibition – I think it is necessary to formulate a silent response and remember, at least by way of example, the splendid immobility of the ancient academies of the Platonic school".

Opening hours to the public from 20 April to 15 July 2023

from Tuesday to Saturday, from 10.00 to 17.30

with accompanied visits at 10.00, 11.30, 13.00, 14.30 and 16.00

Extraordinary opening on the first Sunday of the month (May 7, June 4, July 2)

from 17.00 to 20.00, with guided tours at 17.00 and 18.30

Closed on Sunday and Monday

closed on April 25th, May 1st, June 2nd