MATERIALS: Print on paper, cardboard tube
DIMENSIONS: 22.5 × 164 × 8 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled, signed and dated on the recto, lower right: ‘Disegno mauri ’74’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1974_226
A black cardboard tube that, as specified in German on the factory label to the right, displays a two-metre-long roll of high-quality white1 drawing paper in a long, narrow frame. Gebleicht- Disegno foregrounds the tools of artmaking, enabling viewers to imagine the content.
1. ‘Gebleicht’ literally means ‘bleached’
1997, Venice, Palazzo Querini Dubois, Minimalia. Da Giacomo Balla a…, 12 June – 12 October, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.
1998, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Minimalia. Da Giacomo Balla a…, 29 January – 6 April, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva (travelling: 1997, Venice).
1999-2000, New York, PS1, Minimalia: An Italian Vision in 20th Century Art, 10 October 1999 – 9 January 2000, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva (travelling: 1997, Venice).
2007, Milan, Galleria Milano, Fabio Mauri: Schermi, 3 May – 15 July.
2008, Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Fabio Mauri. L’universo d’uso, 17 April – 15 May, curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi, Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
2012, Milan, Palazzo Reale, Fabio Mauri – The End, 19 June – 23 September, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
Minimalia: An Italian Vision in 20th-Century Art, exhibition catalogue, PS1, New York, edited by Achille Bonito Oliva (Milan: Electa, 1999), p. 182 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. Schermi, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Milano, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Galleria Milano, 2007), no. 19 (ill.).
