MATERIALS: Tempera on canvas on protruding frame
DIMENSIONS: 60 × 43 × 5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed on the verso, upper right: ‘Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Galleria La Nuvola, Rome
COLLECTION: Emiliano and Ottavia Cerasi, Rome
CATALOGUE: S_1958_113
‘First-generation’ Schermo (Screen) composed of painted white canvas stretched over a shaped, projecting wooden frame. The frame is fastened on the rear by a metal plate bearing the artist’s (very badly faded) signature, along with a label stating details about the work. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1994, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Fabio Mauri. Opere e Azioni 1954-1994, 21 June – 5 October, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Cossu.
2004, Rome, Galleria d’Arte La Nuvola, Arte e cinema d’artista: La Scuola di Piazza del Popolo, 10 June – 10 July, curated by Alberto Dambruoso, Simona Cresci.
2009, Rome, Galleria La Nuvola, Black & White, 10 June – 10 July.
2011, Rome, Fondazione Roma Museo, Palazzo Cipolla, Gli irripetibili anni ’60: Un dialogo tra Roma e Milano, 10 May – 31 July, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero.
2011, Milan, Palazzo Reale, Gli irripetibili anni ’60: Un dialogo tra Roma e Milano, 7 September – 20 November, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero (travelling: 2011, Rome).
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “I prototipi: schermi. 1957-1994”, in Fabio Mauri. Opere e Azioni 1954-1994, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marcella Cossu (Milan / Rome: Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori / Carte Segrete, 1994), pp. 78–83 (ill.).
Arte e cinema d’artista: La Scuola di Piazza del Popolo, exhibition catalogue, Galleria d’Arte La Nuvola, Rome (Rome, 2004), n.p. (ill.).
Black and white 1957-2009, exhibition catalogue, Galleria La Nuvola, Rome (San Marino: Christian Maretti editore, 2009), p. 21 (ill.).
Gli irripetibili anni ’60: Un dialogo tra Roma e Milano, exhibition catalogue, Fondazione Roma, Museo Palazzo Cipolla, Rome, edited by Luca Massimo Barbero (Milan: Skira, 2011), p. 259 (ill.).
