MATERIALS: Tempera on canvas and paper on protruding frame
DIMENSIONS: 65 × 43.3 × 5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Dedication to Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev on verso, lower left of the frame: ‘A Carolyne, con tutto / Fabio Mauri’.
Dated and signed on the verso: ‘1958 Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
ON LOAN: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli
CATALOGUE: S_1958_119
‘First-generation’ Schermo (Screen) composed of a painted canvas stretched over a shaped, projecting wooden frame. The canvas covers a layer of paper, still visible on the rear, which was probably the screen’s original surface in 1958; the artist subsequently, in early 1959, covered it over. The first screen in canvas, the work was donated by the artist to his friend Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev in 1994.
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.
1997, Klagenfurt, Kunsthalle, Fabio Mauri. Male e bellezza / Das Böse und das Schöne, 24 April – 30 June, curated by Arnulf Rohsmann.
2012, Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, dOCUMENTA(13), 9 June – 16 September, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
2023-2024, Rivoli (Turin), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Fabio Mauri. Experiments in the Existence of Evil, 16 December 2023 – 24 March 2024, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Sara Codutti, Marianna Vecellio.
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.).
Fabio Mauri: Male e bellezza – Das Böse und das Schöne, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle, Klagenfurt, edited by Arnulf Rohsmann (Klagenfurt, 1997), p. 77 (ill.).
