MATERIALS: Engraving on aluminium and graphite-coated iron
DIMENSIONS: 57 × 188 × 1.7 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1997_717
An aluminium plate, bearing the cursive inscription ‘lietofine’ cut out as fretwork in the centre. Two iron plates of the same height but lesser width, treated with the same graphite patina, are aligned to the left and right, forming a single monochrome frame.
1997-1998, Rome, Macro – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Arte contemporanea: Lavori in corso 2, 17 December 1997 – 10 March 1998, curated by Giovanna Bonasegale.
2019, Herning, Heart Museum, Fabio Mauri: The End, 23 March – 25 August, curated by Michael Bank Christoffersen.
Fabio Mauri. Picnic o il buon soldato, exhibition catalogue, Galleria La Tartaruga, Castelluccio di Pienza (Siena), edited by Plinio De Martiis (San Quirico d’Orcia, Siena: Editrice DonChisciotte, 1998), p. 45 (ill.).
