DIMENSIONS: 58 × 90 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Dated and signed on the recto, lower left: ‘1966’, lower right: ‘mauri’. Titled, signed and dated on the verso: ‘The End Roma – Fabio Mauri 66’
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome; Galleria Viasaterna, Milan
COLLECTION: Private collection, Göppingen
CATALOGUE: S_1966_191
In the centre of a black card, the inscription ‘THE END’, a leitmotif in Mauri’s work and an indication that a projection has just taken place, in white, very small-font-sized, transfer letters. Mauri said: ‘In my schermi, from the very beginning, the words “The End” sometimes appear, as they appear, as they used to appear and sometimes still do in the movies. Is it death (I have been asked repeatedly for years)? That’s as may be. Indeed it is certain, because death is certain. But it is also a sign of delimitation for a story, for a morality enclosed in a narrative time frame. In effect, each work extracts from the chance or endlessness of life, from its inexplicable inexplicability, a portion of present meaning.’1
1. F. Mauri, ‘Arte e cinema’, interview by G. Di Pietrantonio, in Perché non parli?, edited by G. Di Pietrantonio,
F. Guerisoli, G. Scardi, Silvia Editrice, Milan, 2010, p. 195.
2012, Milan, Palazzo Reale, Fabio Mauri – The End, 19 June – 23 September, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
2015, Venice, Giardini di Castello, Central Pavilion, 56. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – All the World’s Futures, 9 May – 22 November, curated by Okwui Enwezor.
2016-2017, Bergamo, GAMeC, Fabio Mauri: Arte per legittima difesa, 7 October 2016 – 15 January 2017, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
2019, Herning, Heart Museum, Fabio Mauri: The End, 23 March – 25 August, curated by Michael Bank Christoffersen.
2021-2022, Milan, Galleria Viasaterna, Fabio Mauri: Opere dall’Apocalisse, 17 December 2021 – 1 April 2022, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
Fabio Mauri. The End, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Reale, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Skira, 2012), p. 153 (ill.).
56. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte: All the World’s Futures: Mostra, exhibition catalogue, La Biennale, Venice, edited by Okwui Enzewor (Venice: Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia / Marsilio, 2015), p. 615.
Fabio Mauri. Works from the Apocalypse, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Viasaterna, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Venice: Marsilio Editore, 2022), n.p. (ill.).
