MATERIALS: Tempera on protruding frame
DIMENSIONS: 164 × 99 × 7 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and dated on the verso of the canvas, upper left: ‘Fabio Mauri 1970’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Collezione Farnesina, Rome (long term loan)
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: S_1970_128
‘Second-generation’ Schermo (Screen) composed of painted white canvas stretched over a shaped, projecting wooden frame. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1997, Venice, Palazzo Querini Dubois, Minimalia. Da Giacomo Balla a…, 12 June – 12 October, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.
1998, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Minimalia. Da Giacomo Balla a…, 29 January – 6 April, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva (travelling: 1997, Venice).
1999-2000, New York, PS1, Minimalia: An Italian Vision in 20th Century Art, 10 October 1999 – 9 January 2000, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva (travelling: 1997, Venice).
2004, Milan, La Triennale, Da Balla alla Transavanguardia, 10–30 May, curated by Marco Meneguzzo.
2005, New Delhi; Mumbai, Italy for India.
2013, Mexico City, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, A Roma. Obras de la colección Farnesina, 5 March – 31 March, curated by Laura Cherubini.
2015, Zagreb, Museum of Contemporary Art, Capolavori dalla collezione Farnesina: Uno sguardo sull’arte dagli anni Cinquanta a oggi, 6 October – 13 November, curated by Martina Corgnati, Giovanni Iovane.
2015, Sarajevo, Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Capolavori dalla collezione Farnesina: Uno sguardo sull’arte dagli anni Cinquanta a oggi, 20 November – 14 December (travelling: 2015, Zagreb).
2019, Venice, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Mauri | Muntadas, 8 May – 10 September, curated by Laura Cherubini.
2021, L’Aquila, Accademia di Belle Arti, Fabio Mauri: un caro affettuoso saluto a tutti voi, 26 November – 22 December, curated by Maria D'Alesio.
2023, Bergamo, GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Salto nel vuoto. Arte al di là della materia, 3 February – 28 May, curated by Lorenzo Giusti, Domenico Quaranta.
Achille Bonito Oliva, “Fabio Mauri”, in Minimalia: Da Giacomo Balla a..., exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Querini Dubois, Venice, edited by Achille Bonito Oliva (Rome: Bocca Editori, 1997), pp. 118–119 (ill.).
Minimalia: An Italian Vision in 20th-Century Art, exhibition catalogue, PS1, New York, edited by Achille Bonito Oliva (Milan: Electa, 1999), p. 183 (ill.).
Maurizio Calvesi, Paolo Portoghesi, Artisti italiani del XX secolo alla Farnesina (Rome: Edizioni dell’Elefante, 2001), pp. 29, 109 (ill.).
Da Balla alla Transavanguardia: Cento anni di arte italiana alla Farnesina, exhibition catalogue, La Triennale, Milan, edited by Marco Meneguzzo (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2004), p. 74 (ill.).
A Roma: Obras de la colección Farnesina, exhibition catalogue, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, travelling, edited by Laura Cherubini (Rome: Palombi Editori, 2013), pp. 62–63 (ill.).
Cristina Antonia Calamaro, “Schermo 1972”, in Collezione Farnesina: Guida, edited by Federica Piantoni (Rome: De Luca Editori d’Arte, 2014), p. 51 (ill.).
Mauri / Muntadas, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, edited by Laura Cherubini (Imola: Manfredi Edizioni, 2019), p. 6 (ill.).
Claudio Musso, “Fabio Mauri”, in Salto nel vuoto: Arte al di là della materia (Vol. 3), exhibition catalogue, GAMeC, Bergamo, edited by Lorenzo Giusti, Domenico Quaranta (Rome: Officina Libraria, 2023), p. 101 (ill.).
