MATERIALS: Non-woven fabric on protruding frame, typographic letters, frame in painted aluminium
DIMENSIONS: 96 × 56 × 6 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled, dated and signed on the verso, lower side: ‘“Numeri” o “Alfabeti” 1972 variazioni fabio mauri 2004’
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome; Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice
COLLECTION: Private collection, Bologna
CATALOGUE: S_2004_123
Picture composed of a projecting balsa-wood Schermo (Screen) and ‘non-woven fabric’ framed in a painted aluminium box frame, along with two rows of wooden typeface. This so-called ‘third-generation’ Schermo cites 1970s works of the same name (inv. 138, 139), laid out here using ‘modern’ materials. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
2007, Sarajevo, Umjetnička galerija BiH, Viaggio nell’arte italiana 1950-80: Cento opere dalla Collezione Farnesina, 4–24 May, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova.
2007, Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Viaggio nell’arte italiana 1950-80: Cento opere dalla Collezione Farnesina, 12 July – 10 September, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova (travelling: 2007, Sarajevo).
2007, Sibiu, Brukenthal National Museum and Altemberger House Museum of History, Viaggio nell’arte italiana 1950-80: Cento opere dalla Collezione Farnesina, 28 September – 18 October, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova (travelling: 2007, Sarajevo).
2007, Bucarest, MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Viaggio nell’arte italiana 1950-80: Cento opere dalla Collezione Farnesina, 7 November – 2 December, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova (travelling: 2007, Sarajevo).
2007-2008, Warsaw, Viaggio nell’arte italiana 1950-80: Cento opere dalla Collezione Farnesina, 17 December 2007 – 18 January 2008, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova (travelling: 2007, Sarajevo).
2011, Bologna, Fair – Galleria Michela Rizzo, Arte Fiera, 28–31 January.
2012, Bologna, Fiera di Bologna – Galleria Rizzo, Arte Fiera.
2017-2018, Verona, Museo di Castelvecchio, Iconoclash. The conflict of images, 13 October 2017 – 7 January 2018, curated by Eddy Merckx, Antonio Grulli.
Viaggio nell’arte italiana 1950-80: Cento opere dalla Collezione Farnesina, exhibition catalogue, Umjetnička galerija BiH, Sarajevo, edited by Maurizio Calvesi (Rome: Ministero degli Affari Esteri, 2007), n.p. (ill.).
