INV. No 1003
Schermo piombo
1992
ON CANVAS OR ON WOOD
ENGLISH TITLE: Lead Screen
MATERIALS: Lead on wood
DIMENSIONS: 30 × 36.5 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: S_1992_1003
NOTE:

Lead Schermo (Screen) created in 1992 for the ‘Studenti’ exhibition-installation (inv. 758), citing Mauri’s 1957 screen-drawings in its forms (inv. 186). For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.


Exhibitions:

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.

2015, New York, Hauser & Wirth, East 69th Street,
Fabio Mauri. I was not new, 5 March – 2 May, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.

2019, London, Fair – Hauser & Wirth,
Frieze Masters, 3–6 October.


Bibliography:

Before or After, at the Same Time: Rome, Milan, and Fabio Mauri, 1948–1968, edited by Ben Eastham (Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2019), pp. 140–141 (ill.).


Schermo piombo, 1992
Photo: Genevieve Hanson, 2015