MATERIALS: Composition of objects on stone and wooden base
DIMENSIONS: 110.5 × 28.6 × 28.8 cm
Objects: 7 × 28.6 × 28.8 cm
Base: 103.5 × 23.5 × 21 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_1971_318
A carpenter’s tape measure, a comb for a hair-trimmer, a block of pyrographed wood, a typeface, an iron wall hinge and a long-sleeved glove made of leather and fur with an organic, almost animal-like appearance are arranged on a stone slab resting on the top of a wooden column. Part of the ‘Ebrea’ exhibition-installation (inv. 3476), the work featured the name of one of the artist’s relatives in the title: ‘I have two Jewish first cousins, whom I love. Over time, these cousins, first happy and vital, then dramatically shut-in and unhappy, have always represented the “Jewish girl” to me […] A work by a “Jewess”, it is cruelly titled “Priscilla Glove”, adopting my cousin’s name.’1
1. F. Mauri, ‘The Jewish and Myself (speaking personally)’, in F. Mauri, Scritti in mostra: L’avanguardia come zona 1958–2008, edited by F. Alfano Miglietti, il Saggiatore, Milan, 2008, p. 257.
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.
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.
Fabio Mauri, Der Politische Ventilator (Milan: Achille Mauri – Krachmalnicoff, 1973), pp. 54–55 (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. 112 (ill.).
Giovanna Le Noci, “Fabio Mauri”, in Osservare il pensiero riflesso, exhibition catalogue, Atelier Arco Amoroso and Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, edited by Gianluca Ranzi (Grottaferrata, Rome: ArteCom editore, 2007), p. 98 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Scritti in mostra. L’avanguardia come zona 1958-2008, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: il Saggiatore, 2008), pp. 257–261.
Fabio Mauri, Io sono un ariano (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2009), p. 106 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. The End, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Reale, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Skira, 2012), p. 44 (ill.).
Mauri, edited by Flaminio Gualdoni (Milan: Corriere della Sera, 2022), p. 21 (ill.).
