INV. No 546
Mortai – termos
1998
OBJECTS
ENGLISH TITLE: Mortars – Thermos
MATERIALS: Wicker baskets, metal bomb cylinders
DIMENSIONS: 68.5 × 84 × 274 cm
29 baskets with 4 metal bomb cylinders. 68.5 × 53 × 14 cm each
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_1998_546
NOTE:

Resting on the ground, twenty-nine military wicker baskets each containing four metal bomb cylinders, all the same, perfectly ordered to form a battery of one hundred and sixteen units. The work was part of the ‘Picnic o Il buon soldato’ exhibition-installation (inv. 3204).


Exhibitions:

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.


Bibliography:

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. 36 (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. 366 (ill.).


Mortai – termos, 1998