see my letter

(eventually reasons why the work has not been realised)

Anxiety

Previous Publications (?)

This thing is mentioned in "Fabio Mauri Opere e Azioni 1954-1994" Giorgio Mondadori Ed.

Exisiting Documents (photos, drawings, models):

yes: projectual drawings and invitation card

Dear Hans Ulrich Obrist and Guy Tortosa,

Thank you for the invitation to your project.

At the moment I'm working hard.

Anyway, among the unrealised projects, unbuilt (financial, or censorship, or political ), there is one of which the reason is enigmatic.

The title of this project is "Prima del 73. Ritratto somigliante" You can find here enclosed the invitation card, printed in October 1972. The exhibition implied 5 persons (Giulio Carlo Argan, Tina Aument, Enrico Castellani, Mieles Janckso and an Anonymous) seatted in front of their portrait, a very big photo. One of them, wanted for political reasons, who should have been present, was instead missing. The photo was toghether with an 'historical' text, printed on a recorded tape and has written from the future, from 4040. The tape was telling a series of known facts , which where geo-political profeties quite daring.

For instance the fractioning of URSS , but also the fractioning of USA (not appened).

Prof. Giulio Carlo Argan liked this project. But 48 hours before the opening, at 7 a.m., Argan called me sayng: "Mauri, I am in great anguish". "So do I" was my answer.

We decided to do nothing.

This "profetical" exhibition, for reasons that I don't yet know, din't make because of our anxiety.

My best whishes,

Fabio Mauri