MATERIALS: Engraving on aluminium and graphite
DIMENSIONS: 57 × 37.5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled, signed and dated on the verso, lower middle: ‘Senza fine / Mauri / 96’
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome; Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice
COLLECTION: Private collection, Bologna
CATALOGUE: S_1996_515
The words ‘Senza fine’ engraved at the centre of a graphite-patinated aluminium plate, ironically subverting the characteristic ‘The End’ that appeared so often in the artist’s paintings. This work was part of Mauri’s ‘Autobiografia come teoria’ exhibition-installation (inv. 2171), at which the artist presented themes and objects associated with his personal history on panels of the same format and quality.
1997-1998, Milan, Studio Casoli, Fabio Mauri: Autobiografia come teoria, 12 November 1997 – 12 January 1998.
1998, Castelluccio di Pienza (Siena), Galleria La Tartaruga, Picnic o Il buon soldato, 5 September – 11 October, curated by Benedetta Origo, Plinio De Martiis.
1999, Barcelona, Fundació “La Caixa”, La meva cosina Marcella i la guerra civil, 29 January – 21 March, curated by Martí Peran.
2010-2011, Trieste, Castello di Miramare, Fabio Mauri: Un sognatore della ragione, 3 December 2010 – 27 February 2011, curated by Roberto Alberton.
2012, Milan, Palazzo Reale, Fabio Mauri – The End, 19 June – 23 September, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
2013, Venice, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Fabio Mauri. Picnic o il buon soldato, 23 September – 14 December.
Fabio Mauri. The End, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Reale, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Skira, 2012), p. 157 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. Arte per legittima difesa, exhibition catalogue, GAMeC, Bergamo, edited by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio (Bergamo: GAMeC Books, 2016), p. 64 (ill.).
