MATERIALS: Acrylic on wood
DIMENSIONS: 100 × 100 × 3.7 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, dated and titled on the verso, upper right: ‘Fabio Mauri 1994 / “Questo quadro è ariano” ’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1994_590
Black monochrome canvas, stretched over a wooden panel, with letters embossed in the centre to form the phrase, ‘Questo quadro è ariano’. The artwork was part of the ‘oggetti ariani’ he exhibited at the Sauro Bocchi gallery in Rome in 1995 (inv. 593, 1023).
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.
1995, Rome, Galleria Sauro Bocchi, Arierwiege, 31 May – 30 June.
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
2016-2017, Bergamo, GAMeC, Fabio Mauri: Arte per legittima difesa, 7 October 2016 – 15 January 2017, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
Mauri / Muntadas, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, edited by Laura Cherubini (Imola: Manfredi Edizioni, 2019), p. 32 (ill.).
