MATERIALS: Tempera on paper stretched on frame
DIMENSIONS: 60 × 43 × 5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled and signed on the verso: ‘Una / tasca / di cinema / Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
COLLECTION: Private Collection, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
CATALOGUE: S_1958_117
‘First-generation’ Schermo (Screen) composed of a painted, heavy paper sheet stretched over a shaped, projecting wooden frame. The paper in the lower half of the work is folded, forming a flap that the artist called a tasca di cinema (cinema pocket). For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1992, Spoleto, Former prison of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, Convent of San Domenico, Le memorie del bianco, 25 June – 12 July.
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.
2007, Milan, Galleria Milano, Fabio Mauri: Schermi, 3 May – 15 July.
2008, Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Fabio Mauri. L’universo d’uso, 17 April – 15 May, curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi, Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
2010, Barcelona, Arts Santa Mònica – Ministry of Culture and the Media, TV/ARTS/TV, 15 October – 5 December, curated by Valentina Valentini.
2012, Milan, Palazzo Reale, Fabio Mauri – The End, 19 June – 23 September, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
2012-2013, Rome, Macro – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Ritratto di una città. Arte a Roma 1060-2001, 28 November – 26 May.
2014, Rome, Villa Medici, Painting or how to get rid of it, 11 June – 14 September, curated by Éric de Chassey.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
2019, Herning, Heart Museum, Fabio Mauri: The End, 23 March – 25 August, curated by Michael Bank Christoffersen.
2022-2023, Paris, Jeu de Paume and LE BAL, Reversing the Eye. Arte Povera and beyond 1960-75: photography, film, video, 11 October 2022 – 23 February 2023.
2023, Milan, Palazzo della Triennale, Reversing the Eye. Fotografia, film e video negli anni dell’arte povera, 17 May – 3 September, curated by Quentin Bajac, Diane Dufour, Giuliano Sergio, Lorenza Bravetta (travelling: 2022, Paris).
2023, Zurich, Hauser & Wirth, Fabio Mauri. Amore mio, 30 September – 23 December, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
Le memorie del bianco, exhibition catalogue, Former prison of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, Convent of San Domenico, Spoleto, edited by Vittoria Biasi (Rome: Studio Bocchi, 1992), p. 52 (ill.).
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.).
Fabio Mauri: Male e bellezza – Das Böse und das Schöne, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle, Klagenfurt, edited by Arnulf Rohsmann (Klagenfurt, 1997), p. 77 (ill.).
Minimalia: An Italian Vision in 20th-Century Art, exhibition catalogue, PS1, New York, edited by Achille Bonito Oliva (Milan: Electa, 1999), p. 183 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. Schermi, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Milano, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Galleria Milano, 2007), pp. 9–14, no. 14 (ill.).
TV/ARTS/TV: The Television Shot by Artists, exhibition catalogue, Arts Santa Mònica – Ministry of Culture and the Media, Barcelona, edited by Valentina Valentini (Barcelona: Arts Santa Mònica, 2010), pp. 100–101, p. 109 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. The End, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Reale, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Skira, 2012), p. 138 (ill.).
Laura Cherubini, “Schermi”, in Fabio Mauri. Ideology and Memory, edited by Studio Fabio Mauri (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2012), p. 26.
Lorenzo Madaro, “Lungo viaggio nell'archivio di Fabio Mauri”, in Arte, no. 581, Milan, January 2022, p. 123 (ill.).
Reversing the Eye. Arte Povera and beyond 1960-75: photography, film, video, exhibition catalogue, Jeu de Paume and LE BAL, Paris, edited by Quentin Bajac, Diane Dofour, Giuliano Sergio (Paris: Atelier EXB, 2022), p. 217 (ill.).
