DIMENSIONS: 141 × 20 × 20 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_1974_1058
185 Gangster postcards, size 14.8 x 9.2 cm, which the artist printed in 1974 (inv. 265), stacked and placed in a glass case over a white wooden base. Invisible to the public, among the postcards, a photograph dated 1974 shows a ship bearing the name L’ingiustizia (Injustice). The work was first exhibited in this form in 1994 at the ‘Opere e Azioni 1954–1994’ retrospective in Rome, in the ‘Political Multiples’ room.
1994, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Fabio Mauri. Opere e Azioni 1954-1994, 21 June – 5 October, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Cossu.
2018, Capri, Museo della Casa Rossa, Postcards, 27 July – 20 October, curated by Gianluca Riccio, Arianna Rosica.
2023, Zurich, Hauser & Wirth, Fabio Mauri. Amore mio, 30 September – 23 December, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “Multipli politici. 1972-1993”, in Fabio Mauri. Opere e Azioni 1954-1994, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Cossu (Milan / Rome: Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori / Carte Segrete, 1994), p. 130.
Postcards, exhibition catalogue, Museo della Casa Rossa, Capri, edited by Arianna Rosica, Gianluca Riccio (Imola: Manfredi Edizioni, 2018), p. 33.
