MATERIALS: Military baskets in wicker, fabric, and leather, electric lighting
DIMENSIONS: 270 × 53 × 50 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_1998_842
Nine wicker, cloth and leather military baskets stacked to form a column nearly three metres tall, topped by an electric light. The work originated as an installation 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.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
Fabio Mauri, Io sono un ariano (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2009), pp. 369, 372–373 (ill.).
Eugenio Viola, Fabio MauriEugenio Viola, “Fabio Mauri, coscienza critica del tempo, coscienza critica del tempo”, in Arte, Milan, January 2016, p. 125 (ill.).
