MATERIALS: Pencil and felt-tip pen on tracing paper, lead, glass, plastic
DIMENSIONS: 250 × 143 × 20 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1992_387
An anonymous large-scale anatomical study and a reproduction of Albrecht Dürer’s (1471–1528) Adam and Eve,1 drawn in pencil on tracing paper, displayed resting on the floor behind lead frames that, with their uprights, geometrically punctuate the composition. Dürer – Anatomia was one of the works in the ‘Studenti’ exhibition-installation (inv. 3758).
1. Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504, engraving on paper, 25.1 × 20 cm.
1992, Milan, Galleria L’Eroica, Fabio Mauri. Studenti, opening 7 May.
1993, Bergamo, Galleria Elleni, Fabio Mauri: Studenti, 21 October – 30 November (travelling: 1992, Milan).
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.
2016-2017, Bergamo, GAMeC, Fabio Mauri: Arte per legittima difesa, 7 October 2016 – 15 January 2017, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
Fabio Mauri. Arte per legittima difesa, exhibition catalogue, GAMeC, Bergamo, edited by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio (Bergamo: GAMeC Books, 2016), p. 34 (ill.).
