DIMENSIONS: 127.2 × 30.5 × 28 cm
Objects: 17.3 × 30.5 × 28 cm
Base: 110 × 30 × 28 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_1971_314
A block of plaster left rough, like crumbly white stone, incorporating animal bristles, resting on a disc of polishing cloth placed at one corner of a black metal grid. On the opposite side, under a lattice, is a cardboard silhouette of a Star of David with the word ‘Jude’ at its centre. A brass plaque explicitly states the work’s title, Ippolito March. The work was part of the ‘Ebrea’ exhibition- installation (inv. 3476) that rendered the dystopia of a Nazi-ruled world in which, reduced to mere organic matter, racialised bodies were commonly used to make furniture and objects.
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).
1972-1973, Bologna, Museo Civico, Tra rivolta e rivoluzione – Immagine e progetto, November 1972 – January 1973, curated by Franco Solmi, Concetto Pozzati.
1974, Milan, Galleria Cenobio Visualità, “D.P.V.”: Ebrea, 13 February.
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.
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.
Luigi Carluccio, “Mauri”, in Dizionario Bolaffi degli scultori italiani moderni (Turin: Giulio Bolaffi editore, 1972), p. 240 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Der Politische Ventilator (Milan: Achille Mauri – Krachmalnicoff, 1973), p. 44 (ill.).
Linee della ricerca artistica in italia 1960/1980, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, edited by Nello Ponente (Rome: De Luca editore, 1981), Vol. I, no. 244, p. 193 (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: Male e bellezza – Das Böse und das Schöne, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle, Klagenfurt, edited by Arnulf Rohsmann (Klagenfurt, 1997), p. 108 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. The End, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Reale, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Skira, 2012), p. 47 (ill.).
Mauri, edited by Flaminio Gualdoni (Milan: Corriere della Sera, 2022), p. 21 (ill.).
