INV. No 643
THE END
2006
PROTRUDING WALL WORKS
MATERIALS: Metal, graphite
DIMENSIONS: 40 × 40 × 10 cm
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome; Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice
COLLECTION: Private collection, Sion
ON LOAN: MAMCO – Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
CATALOGUE: O_2006_643
NOTE:

Six graphite-coated aluminium letters glued to the wall, forming the words ‘THE END’. A four- blade lens hood frames the writing, seemingly projecting it into the space in front.


Exhibitions:

2007, Rome, Galleria il Ponte, Fabio Mauri: Art Nègre, 19 June – 19 July, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.

2008, Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica,
Fabio Mauri. L’universo d’uso, 17 April – 15 May, curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi, Francesca Alfano Miglietti.

2008, Turin, Galleria Martano,
Fabio Mauri: L’insolubile, 7 November – 23 December.

2009, Monfalcone (Gorizia), GC.AC. – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea,
Fabio Mauri, 10 October – 1 November, curated by Andrea Bruciati.

2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre,
Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.

2018-2019, Geneva, MAMCO,
Fabio Mauri, 10 October 2018 – 3 February 2019, curated by Lionel Bovier.


Bibliography:

Fabio Mauri. L’insolubile, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Martano, Turin, edited by Liliana Dematteis (Turin, 2008), p. 15 (ill.).

Fabio Mauri,
Io sono un ariano (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2009), pp. 468–469, 473 (ill.).


THE END, 2006