COMPONENTS: Iron trestles and table, linen tablecloth, Jewish silver candlestick, box with candles, wafers, photograph on PVC
DIMENSIONS: Variable
Iron table: 60 × 100 × 74 cm
Banner: 300 × 200 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: I_1994_3532
Mauri presented the Via Tasso work-action (inv. 3395) at a retrospective held by the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma in 1994. As an installation, on an altar-table he arranged traces of two already-celebrated rites, represented by hosts scattered on a linen tablecloth and a box with Hebrew inscriptions on it next to a seven-armed candelabrum on which a single candle remained. Similar to Intellettuale (inv. 985), impossible to reproduce without the protagonists and the context for which it was originally conceived, the work was replaced by an ‘installation as a reflection on an action that has already taken place’.1 In 2005, at the ‘Strade di Roma’ exhibition, a photograph of the entrance to the apartment-museum on Via Tasso, printed on PVC almost life-sized and hung on the wall, with the threshold of the door aligned with the floor, was added to the altar.
1. F. Mauri in La performance: Bologna, 1977, catalogue of the exhibition (Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, 1977) edited by M. Pasquali, La nuova foglio editrice, Macerata, 1978, n.p.
1994, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Fabio Mauri. Opere e Azioni 1954-1994, 21 June – 5 October, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Cossu.
1998, Teramo, Sanctuary of San Gabriele, Isola del Gran Sasso, Ottava Biennale d’Arte Sacra contemporanea, 4 July – 20 September, curated by Maurizio Calvesi.
2005-2006, Rome, Villa Poniatowski, Strade di Roma, 20 December 2005 – 28 February 2006.
2025-2026, Milan, Triennale Milano, Fabio Mauri. De Oppressione, 3 December 2025 – 15 February 2026, curated by Ilaria Bernardi.
Lucilla Meloni, “Fabio Mauri ”, in Opening, Year VIII, no. 23, Rome, October 1994, p. 8 (ill.).
Ottava Biennale d’Arte Sacra: Tracce del sacro nel Ventesimo Secolo, exhibition catalogue, Sanctuary of San Gabriele, Isola del Gran Sasso (Teramo), edited by Maurizio Calvesi (San Gabriele: Editoriale Eco, 1998), p. 179 (ill.).
Strade di Roma: 25 artisti 25 scrittori a Roma, exhibition catalogue, Villa Poniatowski, Rome, edited by Maria Ida Gaeta (Rome: Casa delle Letterature, 2005), pp. 40–41 (ill.).
