MATERIALS: Paper and wood in frame with glass
DIMENSIONS: 102.5 × 73 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Dated and signed on the recto, lower left: ‘1992’, lower right: ‘mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: C_1992_1011
White cardboard and straw paper silhouettes, applied to a light-veneered wood sheet, with grain and knots similar to skin dotted with moles. Extending above the frame’s glass, the collage is reminiscent of the lead underwear from the ‘Studenti’ exhibition-installation (inv. 3758), where it was exhibited paired with Architettura intima 2 (inv. 1012).
1992, Milan, Galleria L’Eroica, Fabio Mauri. Studenti, opening 7 May.
1993, Bergamo, Galleria Elleni, Fabio Mauri: Studenti, 21 October – 30 November (travelling: 1992, Milan).
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.
2016-2017, Bergamo, GAMeC, Fabio Mauri: Arte per legittima difesa, 7 October 2016 – 15 January 2017, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
