MATERIALS: Sidol can on exposed photographic paper
DIMENSIONS: 24.4 × 18.4 × 5.7 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled, dated and signed on the recto, lower left: ‘photofinish 1976’, lower right: ‘mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Private collection, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1976_224
A silver bromide gelatin photograph, entirely black, printed on glossy baryta paper, serves as the backdrop for a can of Sidol, a product used in metal polishing. This work was part of the Foto finish ensemble (inv. 800), created in 1976; it was exhibited in 2000 in the Tirannicidi installation at the Calcografia in Rome.
2000, Rome, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Tirannicidi: Vetrina III, la fotografia, 14 September – 30 October, curated by Luigi Ficacci.
2014, Buenos Aires, Fundación PROA, Fabio Mauri, 6 September – 23 November, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
2015, New York, Hauser & Wirth, East 69th Street, Fabio Mauri. I was not new, 5 March – 2 May, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
2017, São Paulo, Bergamin & Gomide Gallery, Fabio Mauri: Senza Arte, 11 March – 29 April.
Fabio Mauri, exhibition catalogue, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, edited by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio (Buenos Aires, 2014), p. 49 (ill.).
