INV. No 815
Hai l’angoscia?
1990
PROTRUDING WALL WORKS
ENGLISH TITLE: Are You in Anguish?
MATERIALS: Mixed media on iron, charcoal on paper, lamp
DIMENSIONS: 102 × 71 × 50 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled, signed and dated on the verso, middle: ‘Hai l’angoscia? / 1990 / Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1990_815
NOTE:

Mixed-media painting within an iron frame open at the sides, as per Mauri’s ‘Interno/Esterno’ works (inv. 3760), protected by Plexiglas grafted onto the lower edge protruding outwards, held at the top by a spacer. A wall lamp emerges from specially tapered glass, illuminating a charcoal drawing in which two bodies, depicted as skeletons with exposed organs, seem to be about to embrace. The drawing is part of the Gli scorticati series (for example, inv. 811), which the artist developed in the 1980s. Around the drawing, the mixed-media painting combines chalk, glue, water and oil with the oxides on the plate, leaving behind evident drips.


Exhibitions:

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


Hai l’angoscia?, 1990
Photo: Timothy Doyon, 2018