MATERIALS: Gauze on protruding frame, tempera on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 125 × 113 × 3.5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and titled on the verso, upper right: ‘fabio mauri tasca del generale ’62’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Galleria d’Arte Niccoli, Parma; private collection, Rome; Auction House Farsetti (Prato, April 2002); private collection, Cassola; Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
COLLECTION: Private Collection, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
CATALOGUE: S_1962_167
Bipartite-structure, Schermo (Screen) on canvas, featuring a geometric painting veiled by semi-transparent gauze in the upper part, and a monochrome background in the lower part. This work is part of a series of Schermi made between 1960 and 1962, in which abstract and geometric elements introduce traces of the urban context. Tasca del generale appears to allude to the insignia that military graduates customarily affixed to their uniforms. 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.
2005, Modena, Galleria Civica, Palazzo Santa Margherita and Palazzina dei Giardini, Pop Art Italia 1958-1968, 17 April – 3 July, curated by Walter Guadagnini.
2007, Chieti, Museo archeologico nazionale d’Abruzzo, Pop Art: La via italiana, 6 July – 15 October, curated by Gabriele Simongini.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
2018, Basel, Fair – Hauser & Wirth, Art Basel, 14–17 June.
2023, Zurich, Hauser & Wirth, Fabio Mauri. Amore mio, 30 September – 23 December, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
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), p. 102 (ill.).
Andrea Tugnoli, La scuola di Piazza del Popolo (Florence: m&m - maschietto e musolino, 2004), p. 80 (ill.).
Pop Art Italia: 1958-1968, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Civica, Palazzo Santa Margherita and Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena, edited by Walter Guadagnini (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2005), p. 136 (ill.).
Pop Art. La via italiana. Omaggio a Mimmo Rotella, exhibition catalogue, Museo archeologico nazionale d’Abruzzo, Chieti, edited by Gabriele Simongini (Chieti: Museo archeologico nazionale d’Abruzzo, 2007), pp. 64, 116 (ill.).
