INV. No 697
Sfera
2009
INSTALLATIONS WITH PROJECTION
ENGLISH TITLE:
Sphere
MATERIALS: Terracotta sculpture, digital projector
PROJECTION: Bompiani Family , 1930s
Digital, black and white, silent, loop
DIMENSIONS: 50 × 30 × 30 cm + projector
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PR_2009_697
MATERIALS: Terracotta sculpture, digital projector
PROJECTION: Bompiani Family , 1930s
Digital, black and white, silent, loop
DIMENSIONS: 50 × 30 × 30 cm + projector
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PR_2009_697
NOTE:
A terracotta sphere with a moulded base, of the kind used for outdoor decoration, employed as a screen for projection of a Bompiani home movie shot in the 1930s. Presented at the ‘Etc.’ exhibition, the work was originally intended for the gallery garden, but was eventually displayed inside, on the floor. Three copies of the sphere were made, to which different films corresponded.
Bibliography:
Alfabeta 2, Year I, no. 2, Milan, September 2010, p. 12 (ill.).
Laura Cherubini, “Projections”, in Fabio Mauri. Ideology and Memory, edited by Studio Fabio Mauri (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2012), p. 96 (ill.).
Raja El Fani, “Godfathering political art”, in Damn, no. 50, Gent, May–June 2015, p. 100 (ill.).
