Giulio Paolini Studio per “Mimesi” (Study for “Mimesi”), 1975

In Studio for "Mimesi" the two figures look at each other: the sculpture - and its profile traced in pencil - assume the symbolic value, precise and absolute value of being the incarnation of the artwork.

"In each of the works entitled Mimesi, the work does not wait for our gaze, our appreciation, our comment, but it fixely contemplates itself, asking itself (and therefore asking its identical twin) the reason why it exists." —Giulio Paolini