INV. No 124
Numeri o Alfabeti 1972 – Variazioni
2004
PROTRUDING WALL WORKS
ENGLISH TITLE:
Numbers or Alphabets 1972 – Variations
MATERIALS: Non-woven fabric on protruding frame, typographic letters, frame in painted aluminium
DIMENSIONS: 60.5 × 43.6 × 5.7 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled, dated and signed on the verso, lower: ‘Schermo in balsa “Numeri o Alfabeti” 1972 Variazioni / 2004 Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Giovanni Fabio Gariboldi, Milan; Collezione Formica, Pisa; Auction House Dorotheum (Vienna, June 2019); private collection, Florence
COLLECTION: Private collection
CATALOGUE: S_2004_124
MATERIALS: Non-woven fabric on protruding frame, typographic letters, frame in painted aluminium
DIMENSIONS: 60.5 × 43.6 × 5.7 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled, dated and signed on the verso, lower: ‘Schermo in balsa “Numeri o Alfabeti” 1972 Variazioni / 2004 Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Giovanni Fabio Gariboldi, Milan; Collezione Formica, Pisa; Auction House Dorotheum (Vienna, June 2019); private collection, Florence
COLLECTION: Private collection
CATALOGUE: S_2004_124
NOTE:
Picture composed of a projecting balsa-wood Schermo (Screen) and ‘non-woven fabric’ inserted into 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 and 139), laid out here using ‘modern’ materials. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
