MATERIALS: Composition of objects on wooden base
DIMENSIONS: 136.3 × 26.5 × 29.5 cm
Objects: 26.5 × 20 × 29 cm
Base: 116 × 18.7 × 23.5 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_1971_313
Composition of objects on a wooden base: a hair-trimmer (in German Haarschneidemaschine), its box, a cloth on which a pair of scissors and a cotton ball rest, a ruler, an awl, and a plumbing element attached to the base with a clamp. The inclined plane on which the objects are mounted is installed on a wooden column. The work was part of the ‘Ebrea’ exhibition-installation (inv. 3476), in close dialogue with the performance of the same name.
1971, Venice, Galleria Barozzi, Ebrea, opening 1 October, curated by Furio Colombo, Renato Barilli.
1971, Brescia, Galleria Acme Studio, Ebrea, opening 30 October (travelling: 1971, Venice).
1971, Parma, Galleria La Steccata, Ebrea, opening 18 November (travelling: 1971, Venice).
1971, Rome, Galleria La Salita, Ebrea, opening 9 December (travelling: 1971, Venice).
1974, Milan, Galleria Cenobio Visualità, “D.P.V.”: Ebrea, 13 February.
1974, Bologna, Galleria de’ Foscherari, Ghenos Eros Thanatos, 15 November – 16 December, curated by Alberto Boatto.
1993, Venice, Giardini di Castello, Italian Pavilion, XLV Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – Punti cardinali dell’arte, 14 June – 10 October, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.
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.
1997, Klagenfurt, Kunsthalle, Fabio Mauri. Male e bellezza / Das Böse und das Schöne, 24 April – 30 June, curated by Arnulf Rohsmann.
1998-1999, Rome, Spazio per l’arte contemporanea Tor Bella Monaca, 20 mostre a La Salita dal 1960 al 1978, 2 December 1998 – 10 January 1999.
2001, Warsaw, Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art, Belvedere Italiano. Linee di tendenza dell’arte italiana dal 1945 al 2001, 18 June – 22 July, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.
2012, Milan, Palazzo Reale, Fabio Mauri – The End, 19 June – 23 September, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
2018, New York, Hauser & Wirth, With Out, 25 January – 7 April, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
Franco Gherardi, “Una poltrona fatta con la pelle della signorina Citterich, ebrea”, in Giorni Vie Nuove, Year 2, no. 2, Milan, 12 January 1972, p. 69 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Der Politische Ventilator (Milan: Achille Mauri – Krachmalnicoff, 1973), p. 57 (ill.).
Ghenos Eros Thanatos, exhibition catalogue, Galleria de’ Foscherari, Bologna, edited by Alberto Boatto (Bologna, 1974), p. 44 (ill.).
Lea Vergine, Il corpo come linguaggio (La “Body-art” e storie simili) (Milan: Giampaolo Prearo Editore, 1974), n.p. (ill.).
Francesco Poli, “Ebrea e il Muro Occidentale di Fabio Mauri”, in XLV Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte: Punti cardinali dell’arte, exhibition catalogue, La Biennale, Venice, edited by Achille Bonito Oliva (Venice: Marsilio, 1993), p. 50.
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. 126 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri: Male e bellezza – Das Böse und das Schöne, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle, Klagenfurt, edited by Arnulf Rohsmann (Klagenfurt, 1997), pp. 7, 108 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. La meva cosina Marcella i la guerra civil, exhibition catalogue, Fundació “La Caixa”, Barcelona, edited by Martí Peran (Barcelona, 1999), p. 24 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Io sono un ariano (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2009), p. 102 (ill.).
Elena Pirazzoli, A partire da ciò che resta. Forme memoriali dal 1945 alle macerie del Muro di Berlino (Reggio Emilia: Diabasis, 2010), p. 66 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. The End, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Reale, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Skira, 2012), p. 44 (ill.).
Alberto Boatto, Ghenos eros thanatos e altri scritti sull’arte 1968-1985, edited by Stefano Chiodi (Rome: L’Orma editore, 2016), p. 48 (ill.).
Mauri, edited by Flaminio Gualdoni (Milan: Corriere della Sera, 2022), p. 21 (ill.).
