MATERIALS: Perforated aluminium, electric light, varnish
DIMENSIONS: 300 × 89 × 78.5 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist; Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice
COLLECTION: Private collection, Vicenza
CATALOGUE: O_1995_609
A photo-cinema set lamp is mounted on a tripod deployed at a height of about three metres. The words ‘Luce ariana’ are carved onto an aluminium plate in front of the lamp, shaping the beam of light and freighting it with ideological connotations. The work is one of the ‘Aryan objects’ displayed at the ‘Arierwiege’ exhibition at the Galleria Sauro Bocchi, Rome (inv. 1023).
1995, Rome, Galleria Sauro Bocchi, Arierwiege, 31 May – 30 June.
2000, Pavia, Teatro Comunale Fraschini, Monopoli Arte Contemporanea, Akropolis: Catarsi dell’arte contemporanea, 20 May – 17 June, curated by Giacomo Zaza.
2019, Venice, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Mauri | Muntadas, 8 May – 10 September, curated by Laura Cherubini.
2024, Parma, Palazzo del Governatore, Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi, Dal Dadaismo all’Arte Povera. Arte contemporanea nelle collezioni private di Parma, 20 April – 21 July, curated by Simona Tosini Pizzetti.
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. 22 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Io sono un ariano (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2009), pp. 332, 338 (ill.).
Federica Boràgina, Fabio Mauri. Che cosa è, se è, l’ideologia nell’arte (Catanzaro: Rubbettino editore, 2012), p. 122, no. 29 (ill.).
Mauri / Muntadas, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, edited by Laura Cherubini (Imola: Manfredi Edizioni, 2019), pp. 82, 84 (ill.).
Viana Conti, “Mauri & Muntadas”, in Segno, Year XLIV, no. 274, Pescara, September–October 2019, p. 38 (ill.).
Simona Tosini Pizzetti, “Luce ariana, 1995”, in Contemporanea. Capolavori nelle collezioni private di Parma, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo del Governatore, Parma, edited by Simona Tosini Pizzetti (Milan: Dario Cimorelli Editore, 2024), pp. 204–205 (ill.).
