MATERIALS: Wooden tennis racquet frame, metal hose clamp, printed card and tennis ball on graphite-coated iron plate
DIMENSIONS: 57 × 37.5 × 12 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1997_847
A metal ring element and a tennis racket protector frame, hung from an iron rod in the centre of a plate patinated with graphite. A pre-printed card for food orders is threaded from the latter. Above them, a white ball dominates the composition centrally, in the upper part of the plate. This work was part of Mauri’s ‘Autobiografia come teoria’ exhibition-installation (inv. 2171), in which the artist presented compositions of objects associated with his personal history on panels of identical format and craftsmanship.
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.
2010-2011, Trieste, Castello di Miramare, Fabio Mauri: Un sognatore della ragione, 3 December 2010 – 27 February 2011, curated by Roberto Alberton.
2013, Venice, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Fabio Mauri. Picnic o il buon soldato, 23 September – 14 December.
2016-2017, Bergamo, GAMeC, Fabio Mauri: Arte per legittima difesa, 7 October 2016 – 15 January 2017, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
