An installation consisting of the 1971 work Sedia in pelle ebrea – Norimberga 1941 (inv. 323) and a life-size technical drawing of it, through orthogonal and perspective projections. Mauri made the drawing in 2001, defining it as ‘post-project’, emphasising the reversal of the usual sequence of execution. In the installation, the chair is displayed exactly below its perspective view, establishing a dialogue between the object and its representation,1 simultaneously highlighting the meticulous planning of Nazi-Fascist ideology: ‘In Ebrea, the operation is cold. And indelicately cultural. With my own hands, I patiently recompense the experience of the turpid. I explore its mental possibilities. By extending the act, I invent new objects made of new men. In passing, I have intruded into the secular security of contemporary “design”, so confident in “progress”.’2

1. See also Parquet con sfera, 1992 (inv. 3544).
2. F. Mauri, ‘Ebrea’, exhibition text, 1971, published in Fabio Mauri, Scritti in mostra. L'avanguardia come zona 1958–2008, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti, il Saggiatore, Milan, 2008, p. 29.