MATERIALS: Engraving on hat box
DIMENSIONS: 35 × 50 × 45 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_1995_595
The inscription ‘Arisch Hutschachtel’, followed further down by the word ‘Berlin’, is engraved on a hatbox lid. The work is one of the ‘Aryan objects’ displayed at the ‘Arierwiege’ exhibition at the Galleria Sauro Bocchi, Rome in 1995 (inv. 593, 1023).
1995, Rome, Galleria Sauro Bocchi, Arierwiege, 31 May – 30 June.
1998, Castelbasso (Teramo), Medieval village, Trasalimenti, 26 July – 21 August.
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.
2016-2017, Bergamo, GAMeC, Fabio Mauri: Arte per legittima difesa, 7 October 2016 – 15 January 2017, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
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. 15 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. Arte per legittima difesa, exhibition catalogue, GAMeC, Bergamo, edited by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio (Bergamo: GAMeC Books, 2016), p. 99 (ill.).
