MATERIALS: Photographic print, iron, wood, rubber, pencils, coloured clay, plastic sheet, soap on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 145 × 110 × 11.5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Dated and signed on the recto under the black rubber sheet, lower left: ‘2001 fabio mauri’. Signed and dated on the verso, upper left: ‘fabio mauri’, on the frame, middle-right: ‘fabio mauri 2001’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Collezione d'arte contemporanea della Sovrintendenza Capitolina, Rome c/o Macro Museum (inv. AM 5274 )
CATALOGUE: C_2001_862
A multimedia collage on canvas, Tempo e Tempi has a background photomontage on paper in which two columns of a classical order, surmounted by a segmented arch, define a span-screen on which the words ‘THE END’ stand out. The image is partially covered by an assemblage of different materials, bordered at the front by a longitudinal iron band: a folded green waterproof tarp, a bar of soap, a sheet of black rubber concealing two black pencils and four Van Gogh-branded coloured clays, a wooden rod running through the composition on a slanted axis, bits of rubber, wood and iron. This work was created for the ‘Cantieri romani’ exhibition staged by the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO), which brought together a series of works on the theme of the city’s urban and architectural transformation during Jubilee year. In a note on the work, Fabio Mauri wrote: ‘One does not know whether it is modernity or antiquity that ends. The coexistence of the two components is History, and that is the answer.’
2001, Rome, Macro – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Cantieri Romani, 9 March – 1 April, curated by Arnaldo Romani Brizzi, Ludovico Pratesi.
2006, Rome, Musei Capitolini, Acquisti e doni nei Musei Comunali 1997-2005, 19 January – 26 March, curated by Giovanna Bonasegale, Maria Elisa Tittoni.
2006-2007, Rome, Macro – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, La collezione: opere scelte, 2 December 2006 – 29 April 2007, curated by Danilo Eccher.
2018, Rome, Macro – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Macro Asilo, 30 September – 31 December, curated by Giorgio De Finis.
Cantieri romani, exhibition catalogue, Macro – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, edited by Arnaldo Romani Brizzi, Ludovico Pratesi (Rome: Gangemi editore, 2001), p. 24.
Giuseppe Uncini, “Roma, (Macro)tendenze dai Sessanta ai Novanta”, in Arte contemporanea, Year II, no. 7, Rome, May–June 2007, p. 120 (ill.).
