MATERIALS: Gesso, paper, steel, iron and copper on wood, iron frame, model car, glass
DIMENSIONS: 71 × 101 × 30 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, titled and dated on the verso, upper right: ‘Fabio Mauri / Città o La macchina / 1990 ’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain, Paris
CATALOGUE: PT_1990_567
Sheets of various materials partially overlap on a wooden panel framed by an open-sided iron frame, similar to the Interno/Esterno collection of artworks (inv. 3760), creating a geometric composition characterised by diagonal lines converging towards the same point. A miniature metal toy car protrudes beyond the upper edge of the picture frame, pointing towards the same vanishing point as the rest of the composition.
1990, Rome, Galleria Anna D’Ascanio, Fabio Mauri: Interno, 9 March – 21 April.
1990, Florence, Galleria Carini, Fabio Mauri: Interno / Esterno, 19 May – July (travelling: 1990, Rome).
1994, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Fabio Mauri. Opere e Azioni 1954-1994, 21 June – 5 October, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Cossu.
1997-1998, Milan, Studio Casoli, Fabio Mauri: Autobiografia come teoria, 12 November 1997 – 12 January 1998.
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2008, Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Fabio Mauri. L’universo d’uso, 17 April – 15 May, curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi, Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
Fabio Mauri. Interno / Esterno, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Anna D’Ascanio, Rome and Galleria Carini, Florence, edited by Lara-Vinca Masini, Alberto Boatto (Rome / Florence, 1990), p. 35 (ill.).
Mariano Apa, “Dentro/Fuori. Mauri/Cucchi. Quando l'Essere abita il Mondo”, in Art E tra, no. 2, Centro multimediale "Quarto di Santa Giusta", edited by Enrico Sconci, L'Aquila, May 1990, p. 28 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. Opere e Azioni 1954-1994, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Cossu (Milan / Rome: Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori / Carte Segrete, 1994), p. 246 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri: Male e bellezza – Das Böse und das Schöne, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle, Klagenfurt, edited by Arnulf Rohsmann (Klagenfurt, 1997), p. 114 (ill.).
Achille Bonito Oliva, Oggetti di turno: Dall’arte alla critica (Venice: Marsilio, 1997), p. 184 (ill.).
Lorella Scacco, “Fabio Mauri. Studio Casoli”, in Magazine, Year III, no. 6, Finale Ligure (Savona), December 1997, p. 43 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. L’écran mental, exhibition catalogue, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing-Lille, edited by Dominique Païni (Lille, 2003), p. 88 (ill.).
Adachiara Zevi, “L'arte ‘saggistica’ di Fabio Mauri”, in L’architettura – cronache e storia, no. 575, Rome, 2003, p. 670 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Scritti in mostra. L’avanguardia come zona 1958-2008, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: il Saggiatore, 2008), p. 270 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Io sono un ariano (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2009), pp. 278, 280–281 (ill.).
