INV. No 1917
Cinema all’aperto
1969
ON PAPER
ENGLISH TITLE:
Outdoor Cinema
MATERIALS: Spray paint on paper
DIMENSIONS: 70 × 100 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled, signed and dated on the recto, lower right, vertical: ‘Cinema all’aperto Mauri 1969’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Private collection, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1969_1917
MATERIALS: Spray paint on paper
DIMENSIONS: 70 × 100 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled, signed and dated on the recto, lower right, vertical: ‘Cinema all’aperto Mauri 1969’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Private collection, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1969_1917
NOTE:
Work on paper composed of pictograms and figures spray-painted with synthetic oil enamels through masks, freely repeated on the sheet, against faded-spray backgrounds in bright industrial colours. The drawing was part of a series featuring the stylised image of a Cinema a luce solida (inv. 210), a palm tree reminiscent of one on the set of L’Isola (inv. 3438), and the inscriptions ‘THE END’ and ‘DIRECTOR’ (inv. 206) that, repeated serially, in some places resemble logos, in others dematerialise into abstract shapes, losing all reference to the works to which they allude.
Exhibitions:
2024, Rome, Galleria Richard Saltoun, Il cinema per Fabio Mauri, 19 March – 27 April, curated by Laura Cherubini.