Senza (1975)
Senza, Senza ideologia, Senza titolo [Without, Without ideology, Untitled] are some of the Projections which the artist started creating in 1975: the works consist in films projected on objects and bodies, which become witnesses to history.
The corporeality of the beam of light projected on the screen-world becomes a metaphor of the creation and the transformation of meaning and a model of the relationship between intellectual activity and reality. This physical experiment, which is also a demonstration of how languages change, is conducted in the light of the meeting and the hybridisation of realities which are all different for their connotation and ends. (Dora Aceto)
Exhibition dates and venues
1975 – Senza arte [Without art], Galleria Punto Blu, Reggio Calabria
– Senza Ideologia [Without ideology], Teatro in Trastevere, Rome
1976 – Galleria Toselli, Milan, curated by Maurizio Calvesi
1997 - L’Esperienza [The Experience], Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo, curated by Lara Vinca Masini
1978 – Senza [Without], Pumps Gallery, Vancouver
– A Space, Toronto
– Senza /Notizie dall’Europa [Without/News from Europe], Fondazione Patino, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, curated by Adelina Fürstenberg
1979 – L’ombra [Shadow], Casa del Mantegna, Mantua, curated by Silvana Sinisi
1980 – Camere incantate/Espansione dell’immagine [Enchanted room/Image expansion], Royal Palace of Milan, curated by Vittorio Fagone
– 17 film d'artista, Spazio Uno, Rome
1994 – Retrospective Fabio Mauri. Opere e Azioni 1954 - 1994 [Fabio Mauri. Works and Actions 1954 - 1994], National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome, curated by Carolyn Christov Bakargiev, supervised by Augusta Monferini
1996 – Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film since 1945, MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, curated by Kerry Brougher
– Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film since 1945, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, curated by Kerry Brougher
1997 – La stanza degli specchi: Arte e film da1945, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, curated by Kerry Brougher
– Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film since 1945, MCA’s Contemporary Art Circle, Chicago, curated by Kerry Brougher
1997– La stanza degli specchi: Arte e Film dal 1945 [The room of mirrors: Art and Film], MOCA, Los Angeles / Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, curated by Kerry Brougher and Rossella Siligato
2003 - L’Ecran Mental: A Retrospective, Studio Nacional des Arts Contemporains, Le Fresnoy Lille, curated by Dominique Païni
2006 – d’ombra [Of shadow], Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, curated by Lea Vergine
– Il Marmo e la celluloide, Villa della Versiliana, Marina di Pietrasanta, curated by Marco Senaldi
2012 – Fabio Mauri, THE END, Royal Palace, Milan, 2012, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti
– Lo sguardo espanso – cinema d’artista Italiano in mostra [The expanded gaze - Italian auteur cinema on display], Complesso monumentale del S. Giovanni, Catanzaro, curated by Bruno Di Marino
2015 – Fabio Mauri I WAS NOT NEW, Galleria Hauser&Wirth, New York, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément
2016 – Fabio Mauri Retrospettiva a luce solida, Museo MADRE, Naples, curated by Laura Cherubini and Andrea Viliani
2019 – Mauri | Muntadas, Galleria Michele Rizzo, Venice, curated by Laura Cherubini
2020 – ROSTA: Perchè un pensiero intossica una stanza?, New Galerie, Paris, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément
