MATERIALS: Paper and gesso on wood, wooden frame, glass
DIMENSIONS: 100 × 64 × 6.5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, titled and dated on the verso: ‘ “Schermo 1959-1990” / Fabio Mauri ’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Galleria Anna d'Ascanio, Rome; Bianca Attolico, Rome
COLLECTION: Attolico collection, Rome
CATALOGUE: S_1990_121
This picture is an accidentally broken ‘first-generation’ paper Schermo (Screen), reassembled in the middle of a white monochrome board, contained in an open-sided wooden frame. Rather than being restored, the damaged work was represented here as an object of the world in all its material fragility, subject to the passage of Time and History. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1990, Rome, Galleria Anna D’Ascanio, Fabio Mauri: Interno, 9 March – 21 April.
1990, Florence, Galleria Carini, Fabio Mauri: Interno / Esterno, 19 May – July (travelling: 1990, Rome).
Fabio Mauri. Interno / Esterno, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Anna D’Ascanio, Rome and Galleria Carini, Florence, edited by Lara-Vinca Masini, Alberto Boatto (Rome / Florence, 1990), p. 15 (ill.).
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), p. 107 (ill.).
