MATERIALS: Tempera on canvas on protruding frame
DIMENSIONS: 68.5 × 50 × 6 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and titled on the verso, lower right: ‘Fabio Mauri / Una tasca di cinema’
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
COLLECTION: Pinault Collection
CATALOGUE: S_1959_118
‘First-generation’ Schermo (Screen) composed of a painted canvas stretched over a shaped, projecting wooden frame. In the lower half of the work, the fabric is folded to form a flap that the artist called a tasca di cinema (cinema pocket). 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.
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2016, Venice, Punta della Dogana, Accrochage, 17 April – 20 November, curated by Caroline Bourgeois.
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.).
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna & Maxxi. Le collezioni 1958-2008, edited by Stefania Frezzotti, Carolina Italiano, Angelandreina Rorro (Milan: Electa, 2009), p. 455 (ill.).
Arte, Milan, October 2011, p. 92 (ill.).
Accrochage, exhibition catalogue, Punta della Dogana, Venice, edited by Caroline Bourgeois (Venice: Marsilio, 2016), p. 176 (ill.).
Arte Povera, exhibition catalogue, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (Paris: Éditions Dilecta, 2024), p. 152 (ill.).
