INV. No 253
Leo Castelli
1975
ON PAPER
MATERIALS: Silkscreen on paper
DIMENSIONS: 70 × 100 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and dated on the recto, lower right: ‘Mauri ’75’. Signed and titled on the verso of the frame: ‘Fabio Mauri Leo Castelli’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1975_253
NOTE:

Silkscreen on paper from the Leo Castelli series, composed of around forty drawings, cut-outs and silkscreens, featuring the inscription ‘Leo Castelli/4 East 77 New York’. As Mauri explained, ‘A great American art dealer, his address stands in for all other artwork content.’ Mauri specified that the operation was meant to be ironic rather than aggressive, a social rather than a political series, focusing on ‘art society’.1

1. F. Mauri, ‘Leo Castelli’, in Fabio Mauri. Opere e azioni 1954-1994, catalogue of the exhibition (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome), edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Cossu, Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori e Carte Segrete, Rome 1994, p. 151.


Exhibitions:

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.

2023, Zurich, Hauser & Wirth,
Fabio Mauri. Amore mio, 30 September – 23 December, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.


Leo Castelli, 1975