INV. No 985
Intellettuale. ll Vangelo secondo Matteo di/su Pier Paolo Pasolini
1975
INSTALLATIONS WITH PROJECTION
ENGLISH TITLE: Intellectual. The Gospel According to Matthew by/on Pier Paolo Pasolini
MATERIALS: 16mm-film projection on clothes on chair, photographs
COMPONENTS: Projector, easel, film, film case, chair, shirt, jacket, fifteen framed photographs
PROJECTION: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Vangelo secondo Matteo , 1964
16 mm film, black and white, sound, 142 min.
DIMENSIONS: Approx. 150 × 320 × 50 cm
Frames: 70 × 59 cm each
Chair, jacket, shirt: 91.5 × 48 × 42.5 cm
Film case: 37.5 × 42.5 × 5.5 cm
Projector: 92 × 20 × 63 cm
Easel: 78 × 48 × 110 cm

PHOTOGRAPHY: Antonio Masotti
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and dated inside the denim jacket, behind the pocket: ‘Roma / facsimile della giacca di Pasolini per la proiezione / del Vangelo / 97 Mauri’.
Five photographs signed on the back of the frame: ‘Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PR_1975_985
NOTE:

On 31 May 1975, at the opening of the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bologna, Mauri screened the film The Gospel According to Matthew on the chest of his friend and director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who made the film, sitting on a wooden chair, dressed in a white shirt and denim jacket. Entitled Intellettuale, this action took place a few weeks after a performance of the same name at the ‘Oscuramento’ exhibition (inv. 3484), at which Mauri projected the film Red Psalm onto Director Miklós Jancsó’s chest. ‘The filmmaker and work form a sculpture of flesh and light, a compact, patient, almost suffering unity. With the force of a “vision”, they reveal themselves to be one.’1 Pasolini was violently killed just five months after the Bologna action, murdered on 2 November 1975 at Lido di Ostia. Mauri subsequently transformed Intellettuale into an installation in memory of his slain friend. On 9 December that year, at the Teatro in Trastevere in Rome, images from the Gospel scrolled across Pasolini’s white shirt hung on the back of an otherwise empty chair; in the next room, the second half of the film was projected onto the face of singer Maria Carta who, her lips half-closed, modulated a lament (inv. 3686). Invited to the Bologna Settimana della Performance, in 1977, Mauri presented Intellettuale as an ‘installation that reflects on an action already performed’,2 introducing a selection of photographs that Antonio Masotti had taken on 31 May in Bologna: ‘A stasis entrusted to objective elements, deprived of body, but anchored in its traces: sound, photos, etc. […] The (full) sense of an (empty) cast from which the object is purposely subtracted’, the artist wrote in the exhibition catalogue, concluding: ‘But it is, here, specific, for the physical disappearance of the only person able to repeat Mauri’s action.’3

1. F. Mauri, ‘Il Vangelo secondo Matteo di / su Pier Paolo Pasolini’, in Pier Paolo Pasolini. La forma dello sguardo, exhibition catalogue, Mercati Traianei, Rome, edited by Fabio Mauri (Rome: Graf, 1985), p. 34.
2. F. Mauri in
La performance: Bologna, 1977 Galleria comunale d’arte moderna, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (Pollenza-Macerata: La nuova foglio editrice, 1978), n.p.
3. Ibid.


Exhibitions:

1975, Rome, Teatro in Trastevere, Senza Ideologia: Azione di Fabio Mauri dal ciclo Oscuramento, 9 December.

1976, Milan, Galleria Toselli,
Senza, 18 May.

1977, Bologna, Galleria d’Arte Moderna,
Settimana Internazionale della Performance, 1–6 June.

1978, Geneva, Fondazione Patino,
Sans nouvelles de l’Europe, 25 May.

1978, Vancouver, Pumps Gallery,
Without, 24 September.

1978, Toronto, A Space,
Fabio Mauri at A Space, 11–12 October.

1985, Rome, Mercati Traianei,
Pier Paolo Pasolini. Una vita futura. La forma dello sguardo, 15 October – 15 December.

1988, New Delhi, Sri Fort Auditorium,
Cinema as Poetry, 22–27 April.

1988, Annecy, Espaces expositions CAC Bonlieu,
Intellettuale, 30 October.

1988, Orléans,
10 journées cinématographiques, 9–14 November.

1989, Tel Aviv, Shaar Zion Library at Beit Ariela,
Intellettuale, 3–17 May.

1989, Edinburgh, St. Cecilia’s Hall,
Intellettuale, 14–25 August.

1989, Boston, Harvard University Boston,
Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Eyes of a Poet, 11–24 October (travelling: 1985, Rome).

1990, New York, Museum of Modern Art,
Pier Paolo Pasolini. Una vita futura, 25 April – 29 May (travelling: 1985, Rome).

1991, Barcelona,
Las formas de la poesia, 20–22 March.

1991, Los Angeles, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,
Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Eyes of a Poet, 11 November – 20 December (travelling: 1985, Roma).

1992, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni,
Pier Paolo Pasolini: figuratività e figurazione, 29 February – 23 March.

1992, Lyon, Istituto Italiano di Cultura,
Pier Paolo Pasolini: figuratività e figurazione (travelling: 1992, Rome).

1993, Mexico City, Istituto Italiano di Cultura,
Pier Paolo Pasolini un cinema di poesia, June (travelling: 1992, Rome).

1993, San Francisco, Castro Theatre,
Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Eyes of a Poet, July (travelling: 1992, Rome).

1993, Amsterdam, The Filmuseum,
Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Eyes of a Poet, September (travelling: 1992, Rome).

1993, Florence, Teatro Niccolini,
Una disperata vitalità, 15–21 February (travelling: 1992, Rome).

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.

1994, Thessaloniki,
Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Eyes of a Poet, 13–25 May (travelling: 1992, Rome).

1994, Berlin, Akademie der Künste,
Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Eyes of a Poet, 15 September – 20 October (travelling: 1992, Rome).

1996, Los Angeles, MOCA – The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film since 1945, 16 March – 28 July, curated by Kerry Brougher.

1996-1997, Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts,
Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film since 1945, 20 September 1996 – 5 January 1997, curated by Kerry Brougher (travelling: 1996, Los Angeles).

1997, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni,
La stanza degli specchi: Arte e film dal 1945, 2 July – 1 September, curated by Kerry Brougher (travelling: 1996, Los Angeles).

1997-1998, Chicago, MCA’s Contemporary Art Circle,
Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film since 1945, 11 October 1997 – 21 January 1998, curated by Kerry Brougher (travelling: 1996, Los Angeles).

1999, New York, Thread Waxing Space,
Foul Play, 30 September – 20 November, curated by Cheryl Kaplan, Asia Ingalls.

2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains,
Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.

2005, Turin, Archivio di Stato – Palazzo Reale,
Pasolini e noi: Relazioni tra arte e cinema, 2 November – 4 December, curated by Laura Cherubini.

2005, Rome, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica – Calcografia,
Pasolini e noi: Relazioni tra arte e cinema, 2 November – 4 December, curated by Laura Cherubini.

2008-2009, Prato, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci,
1988: vent’anni prima, vent’anni dopo, 1 November 2008 – 15 February 2009, curated by Marco Bazzini.

2012, Milan, Palazzo Reale,
Fabio Mauri – The End, 19 June – 23 September, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti.

2012, New York, World Financial Center,
Telegrams on the table, 1–30 September, curated by Cheryl Kaplan.

2012-2013, New York, MoMa PS1,
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Intellettuale, 16 December 2012 – 5 January 2013.

2014-2015, Antwerp, Extra City Kunsthal and Middelheim Museum,
Extra City: Allegory of the Cave Painting / The other way around, 20 September 2014 – 29 March 2015, curated by Mihnea Mircan.

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

2018, Castelbasso (Teramo), Fondazione Malvina Menegaz,
Fabio Mauri 1968-1978, 22 July – 2 September, curated by Laura Cherubini.

2021, Minneapolis, Walker Art Center,
The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance, 15 May – 8 August, curated by Vincenzo De Bellis.

2022, Nice, MAMAC – Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain,
Vita Nuova: Nouveaux enjeux de l’art en Italie 1960-1975, 14 May – 2 October, curated by Valérie Da Costa.

2022-2023, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni,
Pier Paolo Pasolini. Tutto è santo / Il corpo poetico, 19 October 2022 – 26 February 2023, curated by Giuseppe Garrera, Cesare Pietroiusti, Clara Tosi Pamphili.

2022, Rivoli (Turin), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea,
Omaggio a Pier Paolo Pasolini, 3–6 March, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.

2023, Milan, Palazzo della Triennale,
Reversing the Eye. Fotografia, film e video negli anni dell’arte povera, 17 May – 3 September, curated by Quentin Bajac, Diane Dufour, Giuliano Sergio, Lorenza Bravetta (travelling: 2022, Paris).

2023, Zurich, Hauser & Wirth,
Fabio Mauri. Amore mio, 30 September – 23 December, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.

2024, Principality of Monaco, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco,
Pasolini in chiaroscuro, 29 March – 29 September, curated by Guillaume de Sardes.


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Intellettuale. ll Vangelo secondo Matteo di/su Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975
Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Zuerich
Photo: Stefan Altenburger, 2023
Intellettuale. ll Vangelo secondo Matteo di/su Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma
Photo: Sandro Mele, 2022
Intellettuale. ll Vangelo secondo Matteo di/su Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975
Museo MADRE, Napoli
Photo: Sandro Mele, 2016
Intellettuale. ll Vangelo secondo Matteo di/su Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975
Photo: Antonio Masotti, Bologna 1975
Intellettuale. ll Vangelo secondo Matteo di/su Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975
Photo: Antonio Masotti, Bologna 1975
Intellettuale. ll Vangelo secondo Matteo di/su Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975
Photo: Antonio Masotti, Bologna 1975
Intellettuale. ll Vangelo secondo Matteo di/su Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975
Photo: Antonio Masotti, Bologna 1975
Intellettuale. ll Vangelo secondo Matteo di/su Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975
Photo: Antonio Masotti, Bologna 1975
Intellettuale. ll Vangelo secondo Matteo di/su Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975
Photo: Antonio Masotti, Bologna 1975
Intellettuale. ll Vangelo secondo Matteo di/su Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975
Photo: Antonio Masotti, Bologna 1975