MATERIALS: Micaceous enamel on canvas, shelf, moviola, various objects
DIMENSIONS: 140.5 × 87.5 × 22 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, titled and dated on the verso, upper right: ‘Fabio Mauri / “Moviola di notte” / Roma 2001 ’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_2001_650
A reel of film placed on a shelf projecting from the lower edge of a monochrome canvas, glazed in dark micaceous grey. First exhibited and published in 2001, the work was completed in 2007 with the addition of objects: a drawing square, a spool of copper wire, a pen, an electrical cord, an eraser, some string, an upturned ink bottle; a strip of doormat hangs off the lower edge. Mauri described it as ‘an empty girafilm against the night. Any story can be projected onto the dark screen.’1
1. F. Mauri, 2001, unpublished, Fabio Mauri Archive, Rome.
2001-2002, Rome, Casa delle Letterature, Notti Romane, 18 December 2001 – 19 January 2002, curated by Maria Ida Gaeta.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
2024, Rome, Galleria Richard Saltoun, Il cinema per Fabio Mauri, 19 March – 27 April, curated by Laura Cherubini.
Notti romane: Dieci Artisti / Dieci Scrittori, exhibition catalogue, Casa delle Letterature, Rome, edited by Maria Ida Gaeta (Rome: Arte a Casa delle Letterature, 2001), n.p. (ill.).
