INV. No 1052
Lettera Oggetto
1994
ON PAPER
ENGLISH TITLE: Object Letter
MATERIALS: Typewriter on paper sheet
DIMENSIONS: 29.7 × 21 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed on the recto, middle: ‘Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_1994_1052
NOTE:

Invited to participate in an exhibition on ‘time’, Mauri sent Galerie Lara Vincy in Paris a work in the form of a ‘letter object’: ‘I live in Rome. I was born to a Roman mother. I am going home. I am in a hurry because time is counting down: from ∝ to zero. I don’t know how many seconds I have left./What’s the point of this? Everything and Nothing. I chose Everything. But I found that everything was already like this, nothing excluded./Cordially./Fabio Mauri.


Exhibitions:

1994-1995, Paris, Galerie Lara Vincy, Le temps de l’ailleur: D’où viens-tu? Où vas-tu? L’éternelle question du temps et de son sens..., 9 December 1994 – 15 February 1995, curated by Alex Mlynarcik, Pierre Restany, Liliane Vincy.

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.


Lettera Oggetto, 1994