DIMENSIONS: 125 × 90.5 × 9 cm
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome; Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice
COLLECTION: Vena collection
ON LOAN: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli
CATALOGUE: PT_2009_690
With Etc. (inv. 689) and the Zerbini (inv. 691–96), The End was among the final words in the form of an artwork that the artist left behind, as well as the words that accompanied him the most consistently throughout his journey. ‘It often takes time to fully realise the significance of the incisiveness of a word, scratched, carved onto a freshly plastered wall. Some words have value in and of themselves, outside of a literary context. In my work, I feel the need to sculpt them, to give them the utmost relief possible, but above all to give them a specific weight, aided by the texture of the materials and the mark etched […] To give value to the word, even to a single desperate word, of which there is an extreme need to inscribe, to carve on a freshly plastered wall, to offer it the monumentality of the wall itself as added value.’1
1. F. Mauri, ‘Etc. L’ultima parola’, in Flash Art, Year XLII, no. 277, Milan, August–September 2009, p. 50.
2009, Venice, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Fabio Mauri: etc., 4 June – 20 September, curated by Martina Cavallarin.
2009, Monfalcone (Gorizia), GC.AC. – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Fabio Mauri, 10 October – 1 November, curated by Andrea Bruciati.
2012, Milan, Palazzo Reale, Fabio Mauri – The End, 19 June – 23 September, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
2014, Rivoli (Turin), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Fabio Mauri: Etica ed estetica, 18–21 December, curated by Massimo Melotti.
Fabio Mauri. Etc., exhibition catalogue, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, edited by Vittorio Urbani (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2009), pp. 50–51 (ill.).
Laura Cherubini, “Conversazioni. Ricordando Fabio Mauri”, in Flash Art, Year XLII, no. 277, Milan, August–September 2009, p. 53 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. The End, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Reale, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Skira, 2012), pp. 154–155 (ill.).
Raja El Fani, “Godfathering political art”, in Damn, no. 50, Gent, May–June 2015, p. 100 (ill.).
