Wooden panel with a raised frame, covered in corrugated cardboard. An insert of the same material, revealing the outline of a face, sits at the centre of the painting. The undulations are inclined at 45° relative to the background. A piece of glued-on wood that seemingly corresponds to a nose is at the centre of the face; a red sealing wax insert highlights a square-contoured chin.
Referencing anarchist Angelo Galli, whose funeral was the subject of a famous Futurist painting by Carlo Carrà, through the different orientation of the corrugated card, the work’s title sets out to depict an attitude of ‘constant opposition’ that the artist viewed as characteristic of anarchist thought: ‘Man is inclined toward evil; critical effort coincides with the opposite desire, for good […] To oppose evil is to oppose (its) authority […] Therefore, I call myself an anarchist, therefore, I cultivate myself as an artist. Therefore, I am against, because I would be in favour.’1

1. F. Mauri 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. 141.