MATERIALS: Photograph and various objects on lead, iron and wood table
DIMENSIONS: 120 × 75 × 97 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Private collection, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_1992_481
Balanced on an iron stand, a lead-covered wooden board is packed with a variety of objects: inner tubes, skeins of electrical wire, lead-covered cans, a kitchen mould with a metal ladle, a tray, a blue spotlight, felt webbing, a wire brush and file, a plastic plate and ceramic bowl used for mixing colours, rubber cut-outs and a tray with an iron and a lead J in the centre. A rolled photograph, a close-up of Greta Garbo, emerges from one of the jars, hence the work’s title. It was part of the ‘Studenti’ exhibition-installation (inv. 3758).
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.
1999, Rome, Liceo Artistico Statale, Opening, 20 February.
Mariagrazia Dilemmi, “Il tema intrecciato dell'arte: intervista a Fabio Mauri”, in Qui Bergamo, Year 2, no. 16, Bergamo, November 1993, p. 49 (ill.).
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. 257 (ill.).
