French translation of the twin work Il nulla non c’è (inv. 638), executed using the same technique: uppercase letters individually printed on paper, collaged on board. In a 2008 interview, Manuela De Leonardis asked: ‘What do you mean by Il nulla non c’è’?’ Fabio Mauri responded: ‘I recently read an extremely interesting book by the Bogdanov brothers. They’ve developed a theory about the physical universe, “closed but considered without boundary” […] Il nulla non c’è. The principle on which these two Russian brothers, who are unsettling contemporary physics, is based on a number, not a material; it’s an algebraic equation. There’s something incredible about all this. A figure like a primum, the first substance of the existing universe.’1

1. F. Mauri in M. De Leonardis, Fabio Mauri. Roma, Auditorium Parco della Musica, in ‘Exibart.com’, 2 May 2008.