Mauri made this projection-based installation for the XXVII edition of the Premio Suzzara award, an interdisciplinary review on the theme of ‘art and work’ coordinated by Paolo Fossati, Guido Giuffrè and Franco Solmi, featuring interventions and events in different places around the city. At Civic Hall on Via Montecchi, Mauri displayed a 2 x 2 metre square screen on which he ‘printed the image of working people. Film carpenters or workers emblematic of it. Film masterpieces are projected onto this canvas image. Without sound. The focus should not be distracted; rather, it questions the interference of these images. What I mean to say is that art, the masterpiece, besides being what we know, is the sum of an infinity of even and especially anonymous work.’1

1. F. Mauri in Arte e lavoro, catalogue of the exhibition (Sala Civica, Suzzara, 1974), edited by G. Giuffrè, F. Solmi, Suzzara, 1974, n.p.