To mark the centenary of Fabio Mauri’s birth, Galleria Michela Rizzo is delighted to present L’esperimento del tempo, a solo exhibition curated by Ivan Barlafante, which opens to the public on Wednesday 6 May from 5 pm to 10 pm at the gallery’s Palazzo Palumbo Fossati venue in Venice.

“Eternal life is not long; it is a timeless instant. ” With these words, quoted by his friend Giacomo Marramao in L’Esperimento del Mondo, begins the reflection on Fabio Mauri, at the heart of the exhibition L’esperimento del tempo.

The exhibition explores the intersection between time and eternity, dimensions that run through the artist’s entire body of work. Mauri’s work stems from a constant tension between historical experience and metaphysical inquiry: having lived through fascism and Nazism, coupled with a profound reflection on the absolute, leads the artist to a radical analysis of reality and its modes of representation.

“I know what art is; ask me what art is, and I do not know, ” writes Mauri, paraphrasing Saint Augustine. This apparent contradiction encapsulates a vision in which time is concentrated in the present, the only possible locus of existence.

The exhibition brings together around 80 works, spanning the artist’s entire career: from Schermo-disegno / Orizzontale- verticale (1957) to Etc., created for his final solo exhibition, which opened posthumously in 2009 in the gallery’s own premises.

Through this journey, it becomes clear how the relationship with history, with reality and with the sacred is inscribed within a complex temporality, in which past, present and eternity coexist.

A time — Mauri’s time — outside of time.