INV. No 1114
Schermo
1970
PROTRUDING WALL WORKS
ENGLISH TITLE: Screen
MATERIALS: Wood and enamel on canvas on protruding frame
DIMENSIONS: 190 × 150 × 10 cm
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
COLLECTION: Private collection
CATALOGUE: S_1970_1114
NOTE:

‘Second-generation’ Schermo (Screen), consisting of a white-painted canvas stretched over a shaped, projecting wooden frame in the centre of which stands a black wooden plaque with ‘THE END’ written on it with black on black duct tape. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.


Exhibitions:

2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.

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

2023, Zurich, Hauser & Wirth,
Fabio Mauri. Amore mio, 30 September – 23 December, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.


Schermo, 1970