MATERIALS: Print and collage on paper, transfer letters and transparent plastic
DIMENSIONS: 51 × 70 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled, dated and signed on the recto, lower left: ‘Ebrea studio del cavallo 71’, lower right: ‘Mauri ’71’.
On the verso of the frame, printed on paper: ‘Fabio Mauri apologizes. / The planned installation “Apocalypses in Quiet” could not be realized. / The “Cavallo SS” belongs to “Ebrea” (1971) / On the wall is a graphic work from the same period. / More than a dream, this is, I hope, a nightmare of the horse. / 23.9.95 / Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: C_1995_863
A drawing of the Finimenti in pelle ebrea, Alta scuola militare Oberklandertan-Wien (inv. 311) sculpture, photocopied, cut out and pasted onto a black background, in the middle of grey-blue cardboard. The horse is missing one leg and its tail. As Mauri specifies on the rear of the frame, it seemingly emerges from the darkness, as if in a dream or a nightmare. A white label on the coloured passe-partout, to the left of the horse, displays the title Cavallo SS (inv. 3247). Lower down in the centre, the words ‘Der Politische Ventilator’, in Gothic-German script, refer to the eponymous book (inv. 205) on the artist’s ideological works between 1970 and 1973. Framed openly inside a transparent plastic bag, the work was displayed in the 1995 ‘Trasparenze. Il Sogno del Cavallo’ exhibition.
1995, Grosseto, Cassero Senese, Trasparenze. Il Sogno del Cavallo, 23 September – 8 October, curated by Giorgio Celli.
2023-2024, Rivoli (Turin), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Fabio Mauri. Experiments in the Existence of Evil, 16 December 2023 – 24 March 2024, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Sara Codutti, Marianna Vecellio.
