INV. No 814
Gli occhiali
1990
ON CANVAS OR ON WOOD
ENGLISH TITLE: The Glasses
MATERIALS: Gesso and paper on wood, glasses, iron frame
DIMENSIONS: 71 × 101 × 6 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, dated and titled on the verso, upper left: ‘Fabio Mauri, 1990, “Senza titolo / Gli occhiali” ’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1990_814
NOTE:

Seven pairs of sunglasses, with round, mirror-painted lenses, juxtaposed in three rows at the centre of a white monochrome painting. Without forming a truly intelligible word, raised letters are freely arranged on the panel around the objects. The work is within an iron frame open to the sides, like the other paintings in the ‘Interno/Esterno’ exhibition-installation (inv. 3760), foreshadowing the topic tackled in Immigration Question (inv. 565, 566).


Exhibitions:

2018, New York, Hauser & Wirth, With Out, 25 January – 7 April, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.


Gli occhiali, 1990
Photo: Timothy Doyon, 2018