INV. No 452
Cina 2
1992
OBJECTS
ENGLISH TITLE: China 2
MATERIALS: Iron, lead, tyres, inner tubes
DIMENSIONS: 170 × 200 × 40 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist; Galleria Clio Calvi Rudi Volpi, Milan
COLLECTION: Baldi collection, Milan
CATALOGUE: O_1992_452
NOTE:

An iron rod on a square base supports a lead outline of a male torso on whose neck deflated inner tubes hang from hooks. Two iron rods branch out towards the ground from the centre of the torso to form a triangle, at the lower ends of which two tyres – one coated in lead – hang, rendering a synthetic figure of a man on a bicycle. This work was part of the ‘Studenti’ exhibition-installation (inv. 3758).


Exhibitions:

1992, Milan, Galleria L’Eroica, Fabio Mauri. Studenti, opening 7 May.

1993, Bergamo, Galleria Elleni,
Fabio Mauri: Studenti, 21 October – 30 November (travelling: 1992, Milan).


Bibliography:

Fabio Mauri, Io sono un ariano (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2009), pp. 304–305 (ill.).


Cina 2, 1992