MATERIALS: Plastic on exposed photographic paper
DIMENSIONS: 24.4 × 18.4 × 3.2 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and dated on the recto, lower right: ‘mauri’, lower left: ‘foto finish’.
Signed, titled and dated on the verso: ‘fabio mauri / foto finish / 1976’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Private collection, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1976_954
A clump of warped plastic letters glued on top of each other, in the centre of an all-black silver bromide gelatin photograph, printed on glossy baryta paper. This work was part of the Foto finish ensemble (inv. 800), created in 1976; it was exhibited in 2000 at the Tirannicidi installation at the Calcografia in Rome.
2000, Rome, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Tirannicidi: Vetrina III, la fotografia, 14 September – 30 October, curated by Luigi Ficacci.
2014, Buenos Aires, Fundación PROA, Fabio Mauri, 6 September – 23 November, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
2015, New York, Hauser & Wirth, East 69th Street, Fabio Mauri. I was not new, 5 March – 2 May, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
2017, São Paulo, Bergamin & Gomide Gallery, Fabio Mauri: Senza Arte, 11 March – 29 April.
