DIMENSIONS: Variable
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PR_2003_3505
In 2003, at Le Fresnoy Museum in Tourcoing, France, Mauri projected a white field with the words ‘THE END’ in the middle, on the wall behind Il Muro Occidentale o del Pianto (inv. 441). In dialogue with a wall represnetnig lost lives, the projected script references a concept of the end that, as on a movie screen, keeps on tragically repeating itself. ‘I write “The end” because the memory of something always continues beyond its disappearance.’1
1. F. Mauri in G. Pangrazio, ‘Una nudità bella e orribile’, in Alfabeta 2, Year I, no. 2, Milan, 2010, p. 23.
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2005, Bergamo, GAMeC – Teatro sociale, Fabio Mauri. Il Muro Occidentale o del Pianto. Ebrea, 28 January – 20 February.
2008-2009, Prato, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, 1988: vent’anni prima, vent’anni dopo, 1 November 2008 – 15 February 2009, curated by Marco Bazzini.
2018, New York, Hauser & Wirth, With Out, 25 January – 7 April, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
2019, Herning, Heart Museum, Fabio Mauri: The End, 23 March – 25 August, curated by Michael Bank Christoffersen.
2020, Venice, Fondazione Cini, The End, 28–31 January.
2020, Rome, La Fondazione, The End, 28 January – 1 February, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto.
Federico Sardella, “Fabio Mauri. Teatro sociale / GAMeC”, in Arte e Critica, Year XII, no. 42, Rome, April–June 2005, p. 76 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Io sono un ariano (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2009), p. 322 (ill.).
