MATERIALS: Canvas on protruding frame, wooden frame
DIMENSIONS: 183 × 81 × 6 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, titled and dated on the verso, upper left: ‘“Schermo come quadro” / Questo quadro ha abbandonato lo studio di vicolo di Febo 7 / il 9.4.1974 / Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Antonio Zanuso
CATALOGUE: S_1971_131
‘Second-generation’ Schermo (Screen) composed of an unpainted canvas stretched on a projecting frame, surrounded by a wooden frame without any glass. 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, Klagenfurt, Kunsthalle, Fabio Mauri. Male e bellezza / Das Böse und das Schöne, 24 April – 30 June, curated by Arnulf Rohsmann.
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. 106 (ill.).
