MATERIALS: Ceramic dish, squid ink pasta, iron and graphite base
DIMENSIONS: 112 × 23.5 × 23.5 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Private collection
CATALOGUE: O_1998_523
A portion of uncooked squid ink pasta fills a white ceramic plate, as basic and sturdy as the tableware used in canteens, on an iron base patinated with graphite. The work was part of the ‘Picnic o Il buon soldato’ exhibition-installation (inv. 3204), a counterbalance to the steaming plate of pasta and beans in the Il rancio (inv. 3526) performance.
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.
2013, Venice, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Fabio Mauri. Picnic o il buon soldato, 23 September – 14 December.
2014-2015, Rovereto (Trento), Mart – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, La guerra che verrà non è la prima, 4 October – 20 September.
2015-2016, London, Hauser & Wirth, Fabio Mauri. Oscuramento. The wars of Fabio Mauri, 11 December 2015 – 6 February 2016, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
Fabio Mauri, Scritti in mostra. L’avanguardia come zona 1958-2008, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: il Saggiatore, 2008), p. 116 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Io sono un ariano (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2009), pp. 369, 371 (ill.).
Eugenio Viola, “Fabio Mauri, coscienza critica del tempo”, in Arte, Milan, January 2016, p. 127 (ill.).
