MATERIALS: Graphite-coated aluminium
DIMENSIONS: Variable
PROVENANCE: The artist; Galleria Milano, Milan
COLLECTION: Giorgio Teglio, Genoa
CATALOGUE: I_1998_522
Thirteen aluminium letters, coated in graphite, compose the wall inscription ‘Quadro / perduto’ over two lines. First exhibited in 1998 at Castelluccio di Pienza among the works at ‘Picnic o il buon soldato’ (inv. 3204), Quadro perduto was included the following year in the Quadreria (inv. 439) at Villa Medici in Rome, among paintings by Mauri’s uncle, Roberto Bompiani. In 2007, at Galleria Milano, the inscription was installed under a nail, highlighting a space conceptually poised ‘between fullness and emptiness, presence and absence, the opacity of the thing and the sign’s encrypted transparency’.1
1. A. Boatto, ‘Casa d’artista’, in Fabio Mauri. Interno / Esterno, catalogue of the exhibition (Rome, Galleria Anna D'Ascanio and Florence, Galleria Carini), edited by Lara-Vinca Masini, Alberto Boatto, Rome / Florence, 1990, p. 8.
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.
1999, Rome, Villa Medici, La ville, le jardin, la mémoire: 1998-2000, 28 May – 5 September, curated by Laurence Bossé, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2007, Milan, Galleria Milano, Fabio Mauri: Schermi, 3 May – 15 July.
2013, Venice, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Fabio Mauri. Picnic o il buon soldato, 23 September – 14 December.
