MATERIALS: Gesso and paper on wood, iron frame, glass, fishing rods, weights (5 kg)
DIMENSIONS: Approx. 238 × 101 × 518 cm
Frame: 71 × 101 × 3.2 cm
Rod: 630 cm
Weights: 14 × 9.5 × 9.5 cm each
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1990_808
Two fishing rods of equal size extend from a monochrome white panel toward the space in front, stretching to form two arcs exceeding six metres, hooked onto five-kilogramme weights resting on the ground. Framed by an iron and glass frame open at the sides, white letters in relief on the panel compose the phrase ‘VISITATE FABIO MAURINTERNO SENZARTE ROMA’, an ironic invitation to the 1990 Roman exhibition of that name, of which this work was part (inv. 3760).
1990, Rome, Galleria Anna D’Ascanio, Fabio Mauri: Interno, 9 March – 21 April.
1990, Florence, Galleria Carini, Fabio Mauri: Interno / Esterno, 19 May – July (travelling: 1990, Rome).
2005, Rome, Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Mediterraneo d’arte, 6 October – 5 November, curated by Agostino Bagnato, Claudio Crescentini, Massimo Domenicucci, Tonino Sicoli.
2005-2006, Rende (Cosenza), Maon – Museo d’Arte dell’Otto e Novecento, Palazzo Vitari, Mediterraneo d’arte, 2 December 2005 – 31 January 2006, curated by Claudio Crescentini.
2018, New York, Hauser & Wirth, With Out, 25 January – 7 April, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
Fabio Mauri. Interno / Esterno, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Anna D’Ascanio, Rome and Galleria Carini, Florence, edited by Lara-Vinca Masini, Alberto Boatto (Rome / Florence, 1990), p. 51 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri: Male e bellezza – Das Böse und das Schöne, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle, Klagenfurt, edited by Arnulf Rohsmann (Klagenfurt, 1997), p. 114 (ill.).
Mediterraneo d’arte, exhibition catalogue, Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome, edited by Claudio Crescentini (Rome: erreciemme edizioni, 2005), p. 180 (ill.).
