INV. No 640
L’uomo giusto
2006
OBJECTS
ENGLISH TITLE:
The Right Man
MATERIALS: Leather bag, tennis racquet
DIMENSIONS: 40 × 70 × 30 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_2006_640
MATERIALS: Leather bag, tennis racquet
DIMENSIONS: 40 × 70 × 30 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_2006_640
NOTE:
An elegant leather bag with pockets for a racket and tennis balls is the objet trouvé that makes up this work. As Mauri explains in an interview with Achille Bonito Oliva: ‘In my work, phenomenology is reintroduced in several ways: the first is in the titles […] Second: the acquisition of already concluded objects (a bicycle, a snuff box, a record) as solids of historical phenomenology. The objects are magnets of history, their historical denunciation immediate.’1
1. F. Mauri in A. Bonito Oliva, Enciclopedia della parola, Skira, Milan, 2008, pp. 410–17.