MATERIALS: British military helmet on iron plate
DIMENSIONS: 102 × 70 × 12 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled, signed and dated on the verso, upper right: ‘Normandia 1 / Fabio Mauri 1998’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1998_540
A sheet of black iron backs a British military helmet placed towards the lower-right-hand corner. Normandia 1 was made for the ‘Picnic o Il buon soldato’ exhibition-installation (inv. 3204), along with Normandia 2 (inv. 831), in which the same helmet appears on the slab in a diametrically opposite position.
1998, Castelluccio di Pienza (Siena), Galleria La Tartaruga, Picnic o Il buon soldato, 5 September – 11 October, curated by Benedetta Origo, Plinio De Martiis.
1999, Barcelona, Fundació “La Caixa”, La meva cosina Marcella i la guerra civil, 29 January – 21 March, curated by Martí Peran.
2013, Venice, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Fabio Mauri. Picnic o il buon soldato, 23 September – 14 December.
2014-2015, Rovereto (Trento), Mart – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, La guerra che verrà non è la prima, 4 October – 20 September.
2015-2016, London, Hauser & Wirth, Fabio Mauri. Oscuramento. The wars of Fabio Mauri, 11 December 2015 – 6 February 2016, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
Fabio Mauri. Picnic o il buon soldato, exhibition catalogue, Galleria La Tartaruga, Castelluccio di Pienza (Siena), edited by Plinio De Martiis (San Quirico d’Orcia, Siena: Editrice DonChisciotte, 1998), p. 31 (ill.).
La guerra che verrà non è la prima, exhibition catalogue, Mart – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto (Milan: Electa, 2014), p. 367 (ill.).
