PERFORMER: A woman
PROJECTION: Bompiani Family , 1930s
Digital, black and white, silent, loop
PROPS: A red scarf
DURATION: Variable
DOCUMENTATION: Photographs, video
RE-ENACTMENTS: None
SOUND: Anonymous, Bulgarian trumpet
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PR_2005_3398
Standing in the centre of a small, narrow room, a woman dressed in black is struck by a bright beam of light: a projection of a 1930s home movie showing scenes from a bullfight. The moving images race across the room’s three adjoining walls, contrasting with the stillness of the performer, actress and mime Miriam Vender, looking with an intense, never absent gaze. Around the woman’s neck, a red scarf is poised mid-air, as if held up by a breath of wind. The notes of a Bulgarian trumpet resound around the room. La corrida was presented just once, at the Fondazione Volume! in Rome, as part of the 2005 ‘Cielo Vicino’ (Close Sky) solo exhibition.
2005-2006, Rome, Fondazione Volume!, Cielo vicino, 12 December 2005 – 21 January 2006, curated by Giacomo Zaza.
Carlo Alberto Bucci, “La vita scorre sui muri sbrecciati dai fotogrammi”, in la Repubblica, Rome, 16 December 2005, pp. XIV-XV (ill.).
Manuela De Leonardis, “Fabio Mauri. Roma, Volume! e La Nuova Pesa”, in Exibart, www.exibart.com, Rome, 20 December 2005, (ill.).
Simona Cresci, “Fabio Mauri. La Nuova Pesa / Volume!”, in Flash Art, no. 256, Milan, February–March 2006, p. 112.
Ilaria Piccioni, “Fabio Mauri. La Nuova Pesa. Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea”, in Segno, no. 206, Pescara, January–February 2006, p. 87.
Franco Di Matteo, “Fabio Mauri. Non pensare, osserva”, in Arte contemporanea, Year II, no. 5, Rome, January–February 2007, p. 82 (ill.).
Marilena Borriello, Silvia Marsano, Volume! 1998 > 2008 (Rome: Edizioni Volume!, 2008), n.p. (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Scritti in mostra. L’avanguardia come zona 1958-2008, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: il Saggiatore, 2008), pp. 142–145 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Io sono un ariano (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2009), pp. 431–450 (ill.).
Elisabetta Catalano, Work with Fabio Mauri, edited by Laura Cherubini (Milan: Maretti Editore, 2013), pp. 146–147 (ill.).
