INV. No 984
warum ein gedanke einen raum verpestet?
1972
PROTRUDING WALL WORKS
ENGLISH TITLE:
Why Does a Thought Poison a Room?
MATERIALS: Paper on protruding frame, transfer letters, painted aluminium frame
DIMENSIONS: 71 × 43 × 6 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist; Alberto e Gemma Vincenzini Boatto, Rome
COLLECTION: Tommaso Fantoni, Milan
CATALOGUE: S_1972_984
MATERIALS: Paper on protruding frame, transfer letters, painted aluminium frame
DIMENSIONS: 71 × 43 × 6 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist; Alberto e Gemma Vincenzini Boatto, Rome
COLLECTION: Tommaso Fantoni, Milan
CATALOGUE: S_1972_984
NOTE:
Projecting Schermo (Screen) set in an aluminium box frame with a cardboard bottom. In the lower right-hand corner, the title of the work is stated on the cardboard in German Gothic script Letraset transfer letters. One of few remaining paper versions, this work was part of the group of the same name (inv. 700).
Exhibitions:
1972, Milan, Galleria Barozzi, Zeichen.ung, April.
Bibliography:
Fabio Mauri, “Note su "zeichen-ung" (Warum ein Gedanke einen Raum verpestet?)”, in Proposta, no. 2–3, July–October 1972, pp. 36–37 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Der Politische Ventilator (Milan: Achille Mauri – Krachmalnicoff, 1973), pp. 74–75 (ill.).
