PROJECTION: Bompiani Family , 1930s
Digital, black and white, silent, loop
DIMENSIONS: Variable
Frame: 85 × 101 × 17 cm
Projector Base: 103.5 × 23.5 × 23.5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, dated and titled on the verso: ‘Fabio Mauri / 1990 / Counter N°2 or “0000 77777” ’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PR_2006_636
Three iron frames open on the sides, welded on top of one another to create a frame of considerable weight and thickness. Inside is a collage composed of the most disparate materials: photographs, prints, pieces of wood, a Durst photographic enlarger gauge, a galvanised nameplate, inner tubes, plastic, rusty iron sheets, scraps of paper, various work materials, a sheet of glass … A white ceramic electrical insulator leans up against the upper right-hand side of the frame. A digital projector broadcasts family films from an iron base placed in front of the picture: ‘Now, years later I’m projecting on pictures I worked so hard on. Unfinished pictures that I’ve even exhibited, but for one reason or another seemed to be lacking something. I had the impression they were finalised through projection. Pictures, poised to commence motion from within.’1
1. F. Mauri in M. Silvi ‘Conversazione con Fabio Mauri’, in M.R. Sossai, Film d’artista, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo, 2008, p. 111.
2007-2008, Bergamo, GAMeC, Il futuro del futurismo, 19 September 2007 – 24 February 2008, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
2008, Turin, Galleria Martano, Fabio Mauri: L’insolubile, 7 November – 23 December.
2009, Venice, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Fabio Mauri: etc., 4 June – 20 September, curated by Martina Cavallarin.
2009, Monfalcone (Gorizia), GC.AC. – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Fabio Mauri, 10 October – 1 November, curated by Andrea Bruciati.
2015, Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, Traces. Documento e testimonianza nell’arte contemporanea italiana, 7 November – 9 December, curated by Domenico Maria Papa.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
2018, New York, Hauser & Wirth, With Out, 25 January – 7 April, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
Maria Rosa Sossai, Film d’artista. Percorsi e confronti tra arte e cinema (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2008), pp. 111–112.
Fabio Mauri. Etc., exhibition catalogue, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, edited by Vittorio Urbani (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2009), p. 24 (ill.).
Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, “Fabio Mauri. Arte e cinema (intervista)”, in Perché non parli? Le discipline dell’arte contemporanea raccontate dagli autori, edited by Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Francesca Guerisoli, Gabi Scardi (Cologno Monzese: Silvia Editrice, 2010), p. 196.
Traces: Documento e testimonianza nell’arte contemporanea italiana, exhibition catalogue, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, Turin, edited by Domenico Maria Papa (Turin: Phanés Associazione culturale, 2015), p.119 (ill.).
Laura Cherubini, Contro corrente: I grandi solitari dell’arte italiana: Alighiero Boetti, Gino De Dominicis, Luciano Fabro, Fabio Mauri, Vettor Pisani, Marisa Merz (Milan: Christian Marinotti edizioni, 2020), p. 126.
