DIMENSIONS: 70 × 100 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and dated on the recto, lower right: ‘mauri 74’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1974_252
Silkscreen on paper from the Leo Castelli series, composed of around forty drawings, cut-outs and silkscreens, featuring the inscription ‘Leo Castelli/4 East 77 New York’. As Mauri explained, ‘A great American art dealer, his address stands in for all other artwork content.’ Mauri specified that the operation was meant to be ironic rather than aggressive, a social rather than a political series, focusing on ‘art society’.1
1. F. Mauri, ‘Leo Castelli’, in Fabio Mauri. Opere e azioni 1954–1994, catalogue of the exhibition (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome), edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Cossu, Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori e Carte Segrete, Rome, 1994, p. 151.
2023, Zurich, Hauser & Wirth, Fabio Mauri. Amore mio, 30 September – 23 December, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
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. 151 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Scritti in mostra. L’avanguardia come zona 1958-2008, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: il Saggiatore, 2008), p. 190 (ill.).
