MATERIALS: Photographs and plastic on wood
DIMENSIONS: 149 × 120.5 cm
PHOTOGRAPHY: Elisabetta Catalano
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and dated on the recto, lower right: ‘F.M. 1973’. Titled, signed and dated on the verso, upper right: ‘Ideologia & Natura / 1973 / Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: CSAC – Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, Sezione Arte, Università di Parma
CATALOGUE: PH_1973_861
Photographic collage of images from the Ideologia e natura performance (inv. 3324), captured by photographer Elisabetta Catalano in her studio, consisting of a sequence of twenty-five shots arranged side by side in five rows by five columns. Mounted on a wooden panel, the collage is protected by a transparent plastic sheet that forms an integral part of the artwork.
1999-2000, Parma, Palazzo della Pilotta, Il rosso e il nero, 27 November 1999 – 13 February 2000, curated by Gloria Bianchino, Arturo Carlo Quintavalle.
2010, Parma, Palazzo del Governatore, Nove100, 16 January – 25 April, curated by Arturo Carlo Quintavalle.
Il Rosso e il Nero: Figure e ideologie in Italia 1945-1980 nelle raccolte del CSAC, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma, edited by Gloria Bianchino, Arturo Carlo Quintavalle (Milan: Electa, 1999), p. 328 (ill.).
Valérie Da Costa, Fabio Mauri: le passé en actes (Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2018), no. 68, p. 126 (ill.).
