COMPONENTS: Speakers, audio cassette player and amplifier
DIMENSIONS: Speakers: 27 × 27 × 36.6 cm each
Cassette player: 22 × 7 × 35 cm
Amplifier : 31.5 × 8.5 × 21 cm
SOUND: Audio recording of the performance ‘Che cosa è il fascismo’, 1971
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: I_1973_3493
Four speakers hung on a wall, connected to a cassette recorder, continuously loop audio from the Che cosa è il fascismo: Festa in onore del generale Ernst Von Hussel di passaggio per Roma (inv. 3474) performance. Initially part of the installation of the same name for the 10th Quadriennale (inv. 3479), this sound installation was exhibited along with photographic documentation of the performance at the Civic Center Museum in Philadelphia in 1973, and with only two audio speakers at Galleria Duemila in Bologna in 1974.
1973, Philadelphia, Civic Center Museum, Art around ’70: Italy two, 2 November – 16 December.
1974, Bologna, Galleria Duemila, Fabio Mauri aggiornamenti a & da D.P.V., opening 12 January.
2023, Rome, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Fuori tutto, 28 June – 25 February, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi.
