MATERIALS: Painted motion-picture film, graphite-coated iron base
DIMENSIONS: 106.5 × 23.5 × 23.5 cm
Film: 13.5 × 13.5 × 3.5 cm
Base: 103 × 23.5 × 23.5 cm
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
COLLECTION: Pinault Collection
CATALOGUE: O_1960_21
Motion-picture film wrapped in a spool whose outer perimeter is dyed grey. 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. 20, 22, 23).
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).
2007, Milan, Galleria Milano, Fabio Mauri: Schermi, 3 May – 15 July.
2016, Venice, Punta della Dogana, Accrochage, 17 April – 20 November, curated by Caroline Bourgeois.
2024-2025, Paris, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Arte Povera, 9 October 2024 – 20 January 2025, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
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. 129 (ill.).
Von Futurismus zum Laser: Der italienische Weg, exhibition catalogue, Kunstforum in der Grundkreditbank, Berlin, edited by Rosella Siligato (Milan: Mazzotta, 2001), p. 129 (ill.).
Accrochage, exhibition catalogue, Punta della Dogana, Venice, edited by Caroline Bourgeois (Venice: Marsilio, 2016), p. 187 (ill.).
