MATERIALS: Piece of telephone handset on exposed photographic paper
DIMENSIONS: 24.4 × 18.4 × 5.7 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, titled on the recto, lower right: ‘mauri’, lower left: ‘foto finish’. Signed, dated and titled on the verso: ‘Fabio Mauri 76 / ‘foto finish’’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Private collection, Rome
CATALOGUE: PT_1976_956
A fragment of mouthpiece from an old handset-style telephone, 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.
