MATERIALS: Wooden door, varnish, gold-plated lock
DIMENSIONS: 235 × 120 × 12 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_2000_645
An old wooden door, recovered by the artist during a trip to the Siena area, stars in this installation. The poorly preserved surface enamel on the frame was maintained and consolidated using a treatment to stop the natural decaying process. Mauri grafted the lock of the old door from his studio, gold-plated in the process, onto the two leaves. Leaning up against the wall, the leaves spaced slightly apart, Porta sacra presents a threshold and evokes a trapdoor.
2000, Teramo, Museo Staurós d’Arte Sacra Contemporanea, Santuario di San Gabriele, Isola del Gran Sasso, Nona Biennale d’Arte Sacra: La Porta Segno di Cristo ed evento artistico, 27 June – 15 October, curated by Maurizio Calvesi.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
Nona biennale d’arte sacra: La Porta segno di Cristo ed evento artistico, exhibition catalogue, Museo Staurós d’Arte Sacra Contemporanea, Sanctuary of San Gabriele, Isola del Gran Sasso (Teramo), edited by Maurizio Calvesi (San Gabriele: Editoriale Eco, 2000), pp. 224–225 (ill.).
Segno, no. 175, Pescara, September–October 2000, p. 29 (ill.).
Barbara Esposito et al., “Incontro con Fabio Mauri”, in Accademia ’05. Un album di esercizi, edited by Mariano Apa (L’Aquila: Accademia di Belle Arti, 2006), p. 186.
