MATERIALS: Cross-stitch embroidery on fabric
DIMENSIONS: 43 × 46 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signature embroidered on the recto, lower right: ‘mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist; private collection, Genoa; Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice
COLLECTION: Private collection, Vicenza
CATALOGUE: PT_1994_876
In 1994 and 1995, Fabio Mauri experimented with the technique of embroidery on several artworks, which the artist commissioned from his studio assistant Teresa Rinaldi, a skilled embroiderer who co-signed some of these works with him. This collaboration produced paintings The End (inv. 732), Fine (inv. 733), and Corso di filosofia dell’estetica (inv. 422), as well as embroidery on various ‘Aryan objects’ in the ‘Arierwiege’ exhibition-installation (inv. 615, 620, 747, 925).
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.
