MATERIALS: Armchair, plant, loudspeaker turned off, gesso and paper on wood, iron frame, glass
DIMENSIONS: Variable
Armchair: 96 × 82 × 84 cm
Frame: 72 × 101 × 5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, dated and titled twice on the verso of the painting upper right: ‘Poltrona 1990 Fabio Mauri’ and upper left: ‘Fabio Mauri / 1990’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: O_1990_932
A white monochrome-on-board in an iron frame rests on the arms of a velvet armchair, in the centre of which raised letters form the words ’SENZA ARTE’ (WITHOUT ART). At the ‘Interno/Esterno’ exhibition-installation, at which Poltrona was displayed, a Kenzia houseplant resting on a non-functioning loudspeaker peeps out from behind the armchair (inv. 3760).
1990, Rome, Galleria Anna D’Ascanio, Fabio Mauri: Interno, 9 March – 21 April.
1990, Florence, Galleria Carini, Fabio Mauri: Interno / Esterno, 19 May – July (travelling: 1990, Rome).
1994, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Fabio Mauri. Opere e Azioni 1954-1994, 21 June – 5 October, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Cossu.
1997, Klagenfurt, Kunsthalle, Fabio Mauri. Male e bellezza / Das Böse und das Schöne, 24 April – 30 June, curated by Arnulf Rohsmann.
2015, New York, Hauser & Wirth, East 69th Street, Fabio Mauri. I was not new, 5 March – 2 May, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
Fabio Mauri. Interno / Esterno, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Anna D’Ascanio, Rome and Galleria Carini, Florence, edited by Lara-Vinca Masini, Alberto Boatto (Rome / Florence, 1990), p. 33 (ill.).
Tridente Cinque. Roma 1990. L’artista e lo spazio (Rome: Società Poligrafica Editrice, 1990), p. 21 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. Opere e Azioni 1954-1994, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Cossu (Milan / Rome: Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori / Carte Segrete, 1994), p. 246 (ill.).
Artisti nello spazio. Da Lucio Fontana a oggi: gli ambienti nell’arte italiana, exhibition catalogue, Complesso Monumentale del San Giovanni, Catanzaro, edited by Marco Meneguzzo, Bruno Di Marino, Andrea La Porta (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2013), p. 111 (ill.).
