DIMENSIONS: 64.5 × 81 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled, dated and signed on a label attached to the verso, upper right: ‘“The Nursery News” / Roma 1960 / Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: S_1960_83
Mixed-media painting on canvas in the typical black frame that distinguishes Mauri’s Schermo (Screen) works, The Nursery News takes its title from a clipping from the eponymous fanzine published in the 1960s with the then-futuristic, ‘Orwellian’ date of 1984. Inside the schermo, two vinyl records, one painted white, stand out against an Expressionist-tinged, abstract, gestural painting, crisscrossed with drips from which English words such as ’Superman’ or ‘Packed in this …’, cut out from magazines, emerge. Along the bottom edge, some black, cloud-like silhouettes represent the backlit heads of spectators sitting in a cinema.
1969, Rome, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Fabio Mauri 1959-1969, opening 1 July, curated by Cesare Vivaldi.
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.
2000-2001, Barcelona, Palau de la Virreina, Del futurismo al làser: la aventura italiana de la matèria, 28 November 2000 – 14 January 2001, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Rosella Siligato.
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2005, Vasto, Musei Civici in Palazzo d’Avalos, Piazza del Popolo e dintorni, 16 July – 16 October, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Alberto Dambruoso.
2013, Milan, Fondazione Marconi Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Con il Gruppo 63, 29 October – 16 November, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.
2013, Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Arte totale: il Gruppo ’63, 18 October – 3 November, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
2023, Zurich, Hauser & Wirth, Fabio Mauri. Amore mio, 30 September – 23 December, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
Fabio Mauri, exhibition catalogue, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Rome, edited by Cesare Vivaldi (Rome: Studio d’Arte Toninelli, 1969), p. 35 (ill.).
Amore mio, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Ricci, Montepulciano (Siena), edited by Achille Bonito Oliva (Florence: Centro Di Edizioni, 1970), n.p. (ill.).
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. 69 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri: Male e bellezza – Das Böse und das Schöne, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle, Klagenfurt, edited by Arnulf Rohsmann (Klagenfurt, 1997), p. 75 (ill.).
Del futurismo al láser: La aventura italiana de la materia, exhibition catalogue, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, edited by Rosella Siligato (Milan: Mazzotta, 2000), p. 130 (ill.).
Von Futurismus zum Laser: Der italienische Weg, exhibition catalogue, Kunstforum in der Grundkreditbank, Berlin, edited by Rosella Siligato (Milan: Mazzotta, 2001), p. 130 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. L’écran mental, exhibition catalogue, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing-Lille, edited by Dominique Païni (Lille, 2003), p. 45 (ill.).
Piazza del Popolo e dintorni: La scuola romana degli anni Sessanta, exhibition catalogue, Musei Civici in Palazzo d’Avalos, Vasto, edited by Maurizio Calvesi, Alberto Dambruoso (Vasto: Comune di Vasto / Regione Abruzzo, 2005), p. 89 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Scritti in mostra. L’avanguardia come zona 1958-2008, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: il Saggiatore, 2008), p. 165 (ill.).
