MATERIALS: Metal stove on iron plate
DIMENSIONS: 110 × 70 × 40 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Private collection, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1998_537
A sheet of black iron backs an Aladdin-model kerosene stove. This work was part of the ‘Picnic o Il buon soldato’ exhibition-installation (inv. 3204).
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. 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. 32 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. La meva cosina Marcella i la guerra civil, exhibition catalogue, Fundació “La Caixa”, Barcelona, edited by Martí Peran (Barcelona, 1999), p. 29 (ill.).
Achille Bonito Oliva, Gratis a bordo dell’arte (Milan: Skira, 2000), p. LI (ill.).
Eugenio Viola, “Fabio Mauri, coscienza critica del tempo”, in Arte, Milan, January 2016, p. 127 (ill.).
