MATERIALS: Painted fire extinguisher, vinyl letters, paper
DIMENSIONS: 67 × 42 × 14 cm
EDITION NUMBER: 1/2
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled and dated on a pre-printed card filled in with transfer letters: ‘Fabio Mauri / “Estintore ariano” / N.1 / 1995 ’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Galleria Elleni, Bergamo
COLLECTION: Private collection, Vicenza
CATALOGUE: O_1995_610
Two identical fire extinguishers’ ogival heads are painted in black varnish. The words ‘Estintore ariano’ followed by the number 1 or 2 to differentiate the individual pieces are inscribed at the top of each red body. A pre-printed tag filled with transfer lettering hangs from each fire extinguisher, bearing the title, date and artist’s name. The two objects were displayed as a pair in 1995 at the ‘Arierwiege’ exhibition at the Galleria Sauro Bocchi, Rome (inv. 1023); they were subsequently shown and sold individually.
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.
2009, Rome, Macro – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Love letters, 15 July – 4 October.
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.
Trasalimenti 98: Progetto per l’arte contemporanea, exhibition catalogue, Medieval village, Castelbasso (Teramo) (Grottammare, Ascoli Piceno: Stamperia dell’arancio, 1998), p. 69 (ill.).
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. 23 (ill.).
Alfabeta 2, Year I, no. 2, Milan, September 2010, pp. 24–25 (ill.).
Simona Tosini Pizzetti, “Estintore ariano 1 ed Estintore ariano 2, 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. 202–203 (ill.).
