MATERIALS: Print on canvas paper, wooden rods, acrylic
DIMENSIONS: 268.7 × 222.7 cm
EDITION NUMBER: 1/2
PHOTOGRAPHY: Elisabetta Catalano
INSCRIPTIONS: Numbered and signed on the recto, lower right: ‘1/2 mauri ’75 ’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PH_1975_776
Large-format print on canvas paper of the iconic image from Ideologia e natura (inv. 3324). Taken by Elisabetta Catalano. Mauri chose this as the emblem of the performance. Supported by two black-painted wooden rods at the top and bottom edges, two copies of the artwork were made.
1980-1981, Rieti, Colonnade of the Palazzo Vescovile and Palazzo del Turismo, Generazione anni Venti. Prima Biennale Nazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, 14 December 1980 – 25 January 1981.
1996, Paris, Galerie Alessandro Vivas, Regole Native: Anselmo, Fortuna, Icaro, Mauri, Pisani, 17 April – 18 May.
1996, Milan, Galleria Maria Cilena, Regole Native: Anselmo, Fortuna, Icaro, Mauri, Pisani, opening 30 May (travelling: 1996, Paris).
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2007, Genoa, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, In pubblico. Azioni e idee. Gli anni ’70 in Italia, 21 March – 2 September, curated by Sandra Solimano.
2008, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Italics: Arte italiana fra tradizione e rivoluzione 1968-2008, 27 September – 22 March, curated by Francesco Bonami.
2012, Milan, Palazzo Reale, Fabio Mauri – The End, 19 June – 23 September, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
2013, Venice, LV Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, Italian Pavillon, Vice versa, 1 June – 24 November, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi.
2014, Buenos Aires, Fundación PROA, Fabio Mauri, 6 September – 23 November, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
2022-2023, Paris, Jeu de Paume and LE BAL, Reversing the Eye. Arte Povera and beyond 1960-75: photography, film, video, 11 October 2022 – 23 February 2023.
2023, Milan, Palazzo della Triennale, Reversing the Eye. Fotografia, film e video negli anni dell’arte povera, 17 May – 3 September, curated by Quentin Bajac, Diane Dufour, Giuliano Sergio, Lorenza Bravetta (travelling: 2022, Paris).
Generazione anni Venti, exhibition catalogue, Portici del Palazzo Vescovile e Palazzo del Turismo, Rieti, edited by Giorgio Di Genova (Rieti: Edizioni Bora, 1981), no. 244, p. 185 (ill.).
Regole native: Anselmo, Fortuna, Icaro, Mauri, Pisani, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Alessandro Vivas, Paris (Milan / Paris: Galleria Maria Cilena, Studio Ippolito Simonis, Galerie Alessandro Vivas, 1996), p. 18 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. L’écran mental, exhibition catalogue, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing-Lille, edited by Dominique Païni (Lille, 2003), p. 91 (ill.).
Italics. Arte italiana fra tradizione e rivoluzione 1968-2008, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, edited by Francesco Bonami (Milan: Electa, 2008), p. 102 (ill.).
Lea Vergine, “Italics”, in Abitare, no. 487, Milan, November 2008, p. 11 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. The End, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Reale, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Skira, 2012), p. 147 (ill.).
Vice versa: 55. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, exhibition catalogue, La Biennale, Venice, edited by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi (Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2013), p. 131 (ill.).
