MATERIALS: Black wax on Polyplat, anemograph on iron tripod
DIMENSIONS: Approx. 240 × 104.5 × 160 cm
Frame: 204.5 × 104.5 × 3 cm
Anemograph: 200 × 90 × 95 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled and dated on the recto of the painting, lower left: ‘anemografo / misuratore aereo di correnti’, bottom right vera foto 2000 ’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_2000_800
In 2000, Calcografia di Roma staged ‘Triannicidi’: ‘three group exhibitions of contemporary artists, invited to tackle traditional definitions of the three techniques the institution covers: drawing, printing and photography.’1 Invited to exhibit in the photography section, Mauri created an installation in which, within a grid drawn in charcoal on the wall, he created a dialogue between works from the 1970s (from his series Foto finish, Battaglia navale and Formazione di un pensiero anarchico) and some pieces created especially for the occasion, including Anemografo, an installation consisting of a black monochrome simulating photographic paper, and an aerial flow meter installed on a phototheodolite tripod. Deconstructing the photographic image and turning it into a new system of representation, white script stencilled onto the frame’s lower left-hand corner specifies this to be a ‘True Photograph’.
1. From the press release of the exhibition.
2000, Rome, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Tirannicidi: Vetrina III, la fotografia, 14 September – 30 October, curated by Luigi Ficacci.
2015, New York, Hauser & Wirth, East 69th Street, Fabio Mauri. I was not new, 5 March – 2 May, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
Fabio Mauri. I was not new, exhibition catalogue, Hauser & Wirth, East 69th Street, New York (New York: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2015), p .8 (ill.).
