DIMENSIONS: 57 × 37.5 × 17 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1997_512
A Soviet military cap, prominently displayed atop a graphite-patinated iron plate, featuring a small vintage self-portrait depicting a the Dyrendahl couple. ‘CCCP is the end of the USSR. I recently visited St Petersburg. It feels appropriate to name it with an immediate slip of the tongue: San Leningrad. A sacred place, undoubtedly historic, involving countless biographies. Culturally, mine included, certainly.’1 This work was part of Mauri’s ‘Autobiografia come teoria’ exhibition-installation (inv. 2171), at which the artist presented compositions of objects associated with his personal history on panels of identical format and craftsmanship.
1. F. Mauri, ‘Autobiografia come teoria’, unpublished exhibition text, 1997, Fabio Mauri Archive, Rome.
1997-1998, Milan, Studio Casoli, Fabio Mauri: Autobiografia come teoria, 12 November 1997 – 12 January 1998.
2013, Venice, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Fabio Mauri. Picnic o il buon soldato, 23 September – 14 December.
2016-2017, Bergamo, GAMeC, Fabio Mauri: Arte per legittima difesa, 7 October 2016 – 15 January 2017, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
Fabio Mauri. Picnic o il buon soldato, exhibition catalogue, Galleria La Tartaruga, Castelluccio di Pienza (Siena), edited by Plinio De Martiis (San Quirico d’Orcia, Siena: Editrice DonChisciotte, 1998), p. 27 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. Un sognatore della ragione, exhibition catalogue, Castello di Miramare, Trieste, edited by Federica Alberton (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2010), pp. 41–43 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. Arte per legittima difesa, exhibition catalogue, GAMeC, Bergamo, edited by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio (Bergamo: GAMeC Books, 2016), p. 60 (ill.).
