MATERIALS: Compass on engraved iron plate
DIMENSIONS: 100 × 70 × 8 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled, dated and signed on the verso, upper right: ‘Piccolo e Grande Carro 1998 / Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1998_836
An open military compass sits in the centre of a black iron panel; above and below, a few dots engraved onto the plate, map out the constellations of the Big and Little Dipper. This work was made for the ‘Picnic o Il buon soldato’ exhibition (inv. 3204).
1998, Castelluccio di Pienza (Siena), Galleria La Tartaruga, Picnic o Il buon soldato, 5 September – 11 October, curated by Benedetta Origo, Plinio De Martiis.
1999, Barcelona, Fundació “La Caixa”, La meva cosina Marcella i la guerra civil, 29 January – 21 March, curated by Martí Peran.
2013, Venice, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Fabio Mauri. Picnic o il buon soldato, 23 September – 14 December.
2014-2015, Rovereto (Trento), Mart – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, La guerra che verrà non è la prima, 4 October – 20 September.
2015-2016, London, Hauser & Wirth, Fabio Mauri. Oscuramento. The wars of Fabio Mauri, 11 December 2015 – 6 February 2016, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
La guerra che verrà non è la prima, exhibition catalogue, Mart – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto (Milan: Electa, 2014), p. 369 (ill.).
