Fabio Mauri Study Day
May 09, 2014
The Center for Italian Modern Art is pleased to present a Study Day dedicated to postwar Italian avant-garde artist, Fabio Mauri (1926-2009). The program will examine varied aspects of Mauri’s wide-ranging artistic career and will also include the recreation of one of Mauri’s performances.
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Welcome
Heather Ewing, Executive Director, Center for Italian Modern Art
Introduction: Fabio Mauri and Fortunato Depero at CIMA
Laura Mattioli, President and Founder, Center for Italian Modern Art
Session 1
Theaters of Memory: A Context for Mauri
Norman Kleeblatt – Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator, The Jewish Museum, New York
Mauri and Art and Politics in Italy in the 1960s and ‘70s
Fabio Belloni – Fellow, The Center for Italian Modern Art
“Language is War”: Word and/versus Image in Fabio Mauri
Andrea Cortellessa – Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Discussion with Carlos Basualdo, respondent
Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Performance: Fabio Mauri’s L’Espressionista (1982) Luca Pignagnoli, actor
Session 2
Mauri and Other Screen Practices
Riccardo Venturi – Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris
Uncle Fabio: Prehistory as History
Sebastiano Mauri – Studio Fabio Mauri, Rome Discussion with Carlos Basualdo, respondent
