MATERIALS: Acrylic on canvas on protruding frame
DIMENSIONS: 133 × 80 × 6 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, dated and inscribed on the verso: ‘Fabio Mauri 1970 / SCHERMO IMBOTTITO’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Olnick Spanu Collection, New York
CATALOGUE: S_1970_129
‘Second-generation’ Schermo (Screen) composed of white-painted canvas stretched over a shaped, projecting wooden frame. In the lower part of the work, the fabric is folded to form a flap that the artist referred to as a tasca di cinema (cinema pocket). For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
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, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, La stanza degli specchi: Arte e film dal 1945, 2 July – 1 September, curated by Kerry Brougher (travelling: 1996, Los Angeles).
La stanza degli specchi: Arte e film dal 1945, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, edited by Kerry Brougher, Rosella Siligato (Rome: Nuova Àrgos Edizioni, 1997), p. 29 (ill.).
