INV. No 28
Donna nel sacco
1954
EARLY WORKS
ENGLISH TITLE: Woman in Sack
MATERIALS: Ink on paper
DIMENSIONS: 28.5 × 20.5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and dated on the recto, lower right: ‘Fabio Mauri 54’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Achille Mauri, Milan
CATALOGUE: D_1954_28
Exhibitions:

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.

2012, Kassel, Museum Fridericianum,
dOCUMENTA(13), 9 June – 16 September, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.

2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre,
Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.

2023-2024, Rivoli (Turin), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea,
Fabio Mauri. Experiments in the Existence of Evil, 16 December 2023 – 24 March 2024, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Sara Codutti, Marianna Vecellio.


Bibliography:

Fabio Mauri, Scritti in mostra. L’avanguardia come zona 1958-2008, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: il Saggiatore, 2008), p. 174 (ill.).

dOCUMENTA (13). Das Logbuch / The Logbook, exhibition catalogue, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), p. 161 (ill.).

Laura Cherubini, “Drawings”, in
Fabio Mauri. Ideology and Memory, edited by Studio Fabio Mauri (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2012), p. 11 (ill.).


Donna nel sacco, 1954
Photo: Davide Begotti, 2019