Untitled (Plakat Carton), 1962
Coloured cardboard squares, stretcher, polyethylene
30 x 30 cm
Collection Anna Paolini Piva, Turin

Paolini began his career as an artist with a series of works that saluted the various components of painting, such as line, colour, canvas, and stretcher support. In Untitled (Plakat Carton) he suspended twenty-five colour samples across the width of a stretcher, stapling them to transparent polyethylene to isolate them in a composition that seems to float in mid-air.