MATERIALS: Tepera on padded canvas on protruding frame
DIMENSIONS: 65 × 43 × 5 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist; ? ; private collection, Cosenza
COLLECTION: Santiago Mauri, Milan
CATALOGUE: S_1958_116
‘First-generation’ Schermo (Screen) composed of a painted canvas, padded and stretched over a shaped wooden frame that projects outwards. 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.
2001, Warsaw, Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art, Belvedere Italiano. Linee di tendenza dell’arte italiana dal 1945 al 2001, 18 June – 22 July, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.
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.).
Matilde Martinetti, “Fabio Mauri. Schermo”, in Exibart, Rome, 4 March 2004 (https://www.exibart.com/opera/fabio-mauri-schermo/), .
Fabio Mauri. Schermi, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Milano, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Galleria Milano, 2007), pp. 9–14, no. 15 (ill.).
