MATERIALS: Wooden chair, iron frame, manual current generator
DIMENSIONS: 92 × 101 × 43 cm
Chair: 92 × 48 × 43
Frame: 72 × 101 × 5 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_1992_398
An empty iron frame, one of those designed for paintings in the ‘Interno’ exhibition (inv. 3760), rests on a wooden folding chair used previously in the Intellettuale projection-installation (inv. 985). Next to the seat, a manual power generator – similar to the one inserted in inv. 562 – appears to have been left behind on the floor. The work presents a snapshot of the artist’s studio, populated by found, selected, bought and deposited objects, ‘waiting’ to become part of some work or other.
1995, Rome, Galleria Sauro Bocchi, Arierwiege, 31 May – 30 June.
2003-2004, Brussels, Académie royale de Belgique, Il nuovo rit-ratto d’Europa: Identità dell’arte italiana negli ultimi 40 anni, 1 October 2003 – 15 February 2004, curated by Vittoria Coen.
Il nuovo rit-ratto d’Europa: Identità dell’arte italiana negli ultimi 40 anni, exhibition catalogue, Académie royale de Belgique, Brussels, edited by Vittoria Coen (Bologna: Editrice Compositori, 2003), p. 61 (ill.).
Valentina Ballardini, “Il nuovo rit-ratto d'Europa. Identità nell'arte italiana negli ultimi quarant'anni”, in Exibart, no. 128, Rome, February–March 2004, p. 31 (ill.).
