MATERIALS: Motion-picture film, graphite-coated iron base
DIMENSIONS: 106.5 × 23.5 × 23.5 cm
Film: 23 × 23 × 3.5 cm
Base: 103 × 23.5 × 23.5 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain, Paris
CATALOGUE: O_1960_20
Motion-picture film wrapped in a spool whose outer perimeter is dyed yellow. Here Mauri sets up a dialogue between painting and cinema by drawing attention to the ‘tail’ of coloured film, created in the lab through imbibition, to distinguish the beginning and end of the film at a glance (inv. 21–23).
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.
1997-1998, Trento / Rovereto, Mart – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Palazzo delle Albere (Trento), Archivio del ’900 (Rovereto), Trash: Quando i rifiuti diventano arte, 11 September 1997 – 11 January 1998, curated by Lea Vergine.
2000-2001, Barcelona, Palau de la Virreina, Del futurismo al làser: la aventura italiana de la matèria, 28 November 2000 – 14 January 2001, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Rosella Siligato.
2001, Berlin, Kunstforum in der Grundkreditbank, L’avventura della materia. Der italienische Weg vom Futurismus zum Laser / Una linea italiana dal futurismo al laser, 15 February – 29 April, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Rosella Siligato (travelling: 2000-2001, Barcelona).
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
Fabio Mauri. Opere e Azioni 1954-1994, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Cossu (Milan / Rome: Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori / Carte Segrete, 1994), p. 72 (ill.).
Trash. Quando i rifiuti diventano arte, exhibition catalogue, Mart – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, edited by Lea Vergine (Milan: Electa, 1997), p. 76 (ill.).
Del futurismo al láser: La aventura italiana de la materia, exhibition catalogue, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, edited by Rosella Siligato (Milan: Mazzotta, 2000), p. 128 (ill.).
Von Futurismus zum Laser: Der italienische Weg, exhibition catalogue, Kunstforum in der Grundkreditbank, Berlin, edited by Rosella Siligato (Milan: Mazzotta, 2001), p. 128 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. L’écran mental, exhibition catalogue, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing-Lille, edited by Dominique Païni (Lille, 2003), p. 63 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Scritti in mostra. L’avanguardia come zona 1958-2008, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: il Saggiatore, 2008), p. 274 (ill.).
