MATERIALS: Hair, wax and wood on paper, table photo frame in leather, brass plate, wooden base
DIMENSIONS: 82 × 30.5 × 36 cm
Frame: 42.6 × 25.6 × 3.5 cm
Base: 40 × 30.5 × 36 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Associazione per l’Arte L’Esperimento del Mondo, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_1971_320
Item consisting of a leather-lined, tabletop photo frame displayed on a wooden base roughly half a metre high. Dominating the composition, the green-leather frame contains a small drawing/collage of a shadow man with a red wax spot in line with his chest, a barely legible scorched inscription, a wooden trough, a tuft of hair and two dates, ‘1952–1958’, written in red, stand out. A brass plate screwed into the rear of the frame gives the title of this work, from the ‘Ebrea’ exhibition-installation (inv. 3476).
1971, Venice, Galleria Barozzi, Ebrea, opening 1 October, curated by Furio Colombo, Renato Barilli.
1971, Brescia, Galleria Acme Studio, Ebrea, opening 30 October (travelling: 1971, Venice).
1971, Parma, Galleria La Steccata, Ebrea, opening 18 November (travelling: 1971, Venice).
1971, Rome, Galleria La Salita, Ebrea, opening 9 December (travelling: 1971, Venice).
1972-1973, Bologna, Museo Civico, Tra rivolta e rivoluzione – Immagine e progetto, November 1972 – January 1973, curated by Franco Solmi, Concetto Pozzati.
1974, Milan, Galleria Cenobio Visualità, “D.P.V.”: Ebrea, 13 February.
1978, Bologna, Galleria d’Arte Moderna and church of Santa Lucia, Metafisica del quotidiano, 1 June – 31 August, curated by Franco Solmi, Marilena Pasquali.
1992, Milan, Studio Casoli, Fabio Mauri. 3 performances, 8 April, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
1993, Venice, Giardini di Castello, Italian Pavilion, XLV Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – Punti cardinali dell’arte, 14 June – 10 October, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.
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.
1994, London, Smith’s Galleries, Four Italian Masters of Contemporary Art, 20 October – 6 December.
1997, Klagenfurt, Kunsthalle, Fabio Mauri. Male e bellezza / Das Böse und das Schöne, 24 April – 30 June, curated by Arnulf Rohsmann.
1998-1999, Rome, Spazio per l’arte contemporanea Tor Bella Monaca, 20 mostre a La Salita dal 1960 al 1978, 2 December 1998 – 10 January 1999.
2001, Warsaw, Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art, Belvedere Italiano. Linee di tendenza dell’arte italiana dal 1945 al 2001, 18 June – 22 July, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.
2012, Milan, Palazzo Reale, Fabio Mauri – The End, 19 June – 23 September, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
2013, Perugia, Palazzo della Penna, L’arte è un romanzo, 25 April – 1 September, curated by Luca Beatrice.
2018, New York, Hauser & Wirth, With Out, 25 January – 7 April, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
Fabio Mauri, Der Politische Ventilator (Milan: Achille Mauri – Krachmalnicoff, 1973), p. 59 (ill.).
Metafisica del quotidiano, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Comunale d’Arte and Church of Santa Lucia, Bologna, edited by Franco Solmi, Marilena Pasquali (Bologna, 1978), p. 47 (ill.).
Francesco Poli, “Ebrea e il Muro Occidentale di Fabio Mauri”, in XLV Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte: Punti cardinali dell’arte, exhibition catalogue, La Biennale, Venice, edited by Achille Bonito Oliva (Venice: Marsilio, 1993), pp. 48, 50.
Fabio Mauri, Io sono un ariano (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2009), p. 107 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. The End, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Reale, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Skira, 2012), p. 48 (ill.).
L’arte è un romanzo, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia, edited by Luca Beatrice (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2013), p. 49 (ill.).
