MATERIALS: Crank on exposed photographic paper
DIMENSIONS: 30.8 × 22.9 × 14 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, dated and titled on the recto, lower right: ‘mauri ’76’, lower left: ‘foto finish’.
Titled, signed and dated on the verso: ‘“foto finish” / la manovella / fabio mauri 1976’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1976_955
A piece of a metal crank, against an all-black background, in a silver bromide gelatin photograph 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.
