INV. No 85
Un uomo qualunque nel sacco
1954
EARLY WORKS
ENGLISH TITLE: An Ordinary Man in Sack
MATERIALS: Ink on paper
DIMENSIONS: 27 × 20 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and dated on the recto, lower left: ‘Fabio Mauri 54’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Achille Mauri, Milan
CATALOGUE: D_1954_85
Exhibitions:

1955, Milan, Galleria Apollinaire, Fabio Mauri, 26 February – 10 March.

2012, Kassel, Museum Fridericianum,
dOCUMENTA(13), 9 June – 16 September, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.

2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre,
Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.

2023-2024, Rivoli (Turin), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea,
Fabio Mauri. Experiments in the Existence of Evil, 16 December 2023 – 24 March 2024, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Sara Codutti, Marianna Vecellio.


Bibliography:

Fabio Mauri: Male e bellezza – Das Böse und das Schöne, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle, Klagenfurt, edited by Arnulf Rohsmann (Klagenfurt, 1997), p. 19 (ill.).

Fabio Mauri,
Scritti in mostra. L’avanguardia come zona 1958-2008, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: il Saggiatore, 2008), p. 174 (ill.).

dOCUMENTA (13). Das Logbuch / The Logbook, exhibition catalogue, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), p. 161 (ill.).

Laura Cherubini, “Drawings”, in
Fabio Mauri. Ideology and Memory, edited by Studio Fabio Mauri (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2012), p. 9 (ill.).


Un uomo qualunque nel sacco, 1954
Photo: Davide Begotti, 2019