INV. No 430
Piada
1991
ON CANVAS OR ON WOOD
MATERIALS: Piadina bread, drawing and various objects on wood
DIMENSIONS: 67 × 52 × 18.5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and dated on the recto, lower right: ‘mauri 91’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Private collection, Rome
CATALOGUE: C_1991_430
NOTE:

Collage on panel in an iron frame, composed of various materials among which we may distinguish: a car headlight, a clock dial, a lily-shaped spearhead, a cloth disc from a polisher, pieces of iron, rubber, a mirror, photographs, cardboard, plus a piece of piada, from which the composition takes its title.


Exhibitions:

2000, Rome, Ex Studi d’Arte, Il cibo nell’arte 2000, 11–22 November, curated by Claudio Crescentini.

2001, Nemi (Rome), Castello Ruspoli,
Il Novecento in tavola: Da Duchamp a De Chirico, 7–15 July, curated by Claudio Crescentini.


Bibliography:

Il Novecento in tavola: Da De Chirico a Warhol, exhibition catalogue, Castello Ruspoli, Nemi (Rome), edited by Claudio Crescentini (Rome: Erreciemme, 2001), p. 95 (ill.).

Il Novecento in tavola: Da Duchamp e De Chirico al 2001, exhibition catalogue, Castello Ruspoli, Nemi (Rome), edited by Claudio Crescentini (Rome: Lithos, 2001), p. 97 (ill.).


Piada, 1991