INV. No 3384
Senza titolo
1964
ON PAPER
ENGLISH TITLE:
Untitled
MATERIALS: Tempera and ink on paper
DIMENSIONS: 58.5 × 60.5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Dedicated, dated and signed on the recto, lower middle: ‘A Sergio Vacchi, nel 1964 da Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Sergio Vacchi, Siena
COLLECTION: Alloggia
CATALOGUE: S_1964_3384
MATERIALS: Tempera and ink on paper
DIMENSIONS: 58.5 × 60.5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Dedicated, dated and signed on the recto, lower middle: ‘A Sergio Vacchi, nel 1964 da Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Sergio Vacchi, Siena
COLLECTION: Alloggia
CATALOGUE: S_1964_3384
NOTE:
Collage composed of two screen-drawings cut in half, slightly offset and overlapping. On the right, below the inscription ‘Jhon’, the silhouette of a face on which an oval is applied with the initials ‘KKK’, drawn in ink against a blue background. The drawing was probably intended to cite the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, which was aligned against the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and other white supremacist fringe groups in the US. Next to ‘Jhon’, Mauri added a dedication to Italian artist Sergio Vacchi (1925–2016), beneath an abstract charcoal drawing. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.