01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 76

Fabio Mauri, (1926 - 2009)

Jewish, c. 1981

Offset print 

cm 71x50,3

Private collection

The symbol is branded along with a number of marks of racial discrimination.

The artistic expression of these works with the horrific reality which is evoked. Judaism has an explicit and radical ideological connotation, with a strong accent not only on the negative aspects of Nazi German, but also on the entire European culture That, for enigmatic, almost mysterious historical Reasons That still require an in -depth analysis, did not react strongly nor promptly. (Dora Aceto)

Fabio Mauri was born in Rome in 1926. His early youth was marked by the events of war and Fascism – traumas and horrors that would profoundly impact and influence the artist’s life and work. His parents were giants of Italy’s publishing industry. Raised among writers and painters, it was natural that Mauri would befriend intellectuals in both artistic and cultural circles of Italy’s new avant-garde, among them.

First emerging in the late-fifties, Fabio Mauri (1926 – 2009) developed the ideas for his work in the context of television and cinema, which from 1954 became a part of everyday cultural life. The projected image and the screen were central motifs that defined his oeuvre. Connecting themes and ideas of the past to the present, his work injects within itself a notion of ethical or social responsibility that causes the spectator to critically examine his experience of ‘the real’. Mauri’s artistic career remains as varied and diverse as the activities in which he engaged. For nearly two decades, he worked for the publisher Bompiani, from 1957 to 1975, directing its headquarters in Milan and Rome. Along with Umberto Eco and Edoardo Sanguineti, he founded the magazine ‘Quindici’ (1967) and the magazine for arts criticism, ‘La citta di Riga’ in 1976. An artist, playwright, publisher, critic and professor for over twenty years, Fabio Mauri’s wide-ranging oeuvre cannot be easily defined. Highly innovative and active in Italy’s avant-garde, much of his work, however, remained on the periphery of the parallel artistic movements of the time, such as Arte Povera and Pop Art. More on Fabio Mauri

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