MATERIALS: Enamel on wood and canvas on protruding frame
DIMENSIONS: 225 × 150 × 8 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist; private collection, Milan; Giovanni Fabio Gariboldi, Milan; private collection, Reggio Emilia; Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
COLLECTION: Pinault Collection
CATALOGUE: S_1970_133
‘Second-generation’ Schermo (Screen) composed of white-painted canvas stretched over a projecting wooden frame, with a black monochrome panel placed at the bottom. A wooden plaque painted black, resembling a stamp or censorship, stands out in the centre. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
2000-2001, Rome, Scuderie Papali al Quirinale and Mercati di Traiano, Novecento Arte e Storia in Italia, 30 December 2000 – 1 April 2001, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Paul Ginsborg.
2007, Milan, Galleria Milano, Fabio Mauri: Schermi, 3 May – 15 July.
2016, Venice, Punta della Dogana, Accrochage, 17 April – 20 November, curated by Caroline Bourgeois.
2018, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Nascita di una nazione. Tra Guttuso, Fontana e Schifano, 15 March – 22 July, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero.
2021, Rennes, Jacobin Convent, Au-delà de la couleur: Le noir et le blanc dans la collection Pinault, 12 June – 29 August, curated by Jean-Jacques Aillagon.
Novecento. Arte e storia in Italia, exhibition catalogue, Scuderie Papali al Quirinale and Mercati di Traiano, Rome, edited by Federica Pirani (Milan: Skira, 2000), no. VII. 6, p. 491 (ill.), p. 524.
Gigliola Lai, “Fabio Mauri - Schermi”, in Trasalimenti: progetto per l’arte contemporanea, exhibition catalogue, Medieval village, Montepagano, Roseto degli Abruzzi (Teramo), edited by Gabriele Di Pietro (Roseto degli Abruzzi: Castellarte, 2007), p. 27 (ill.).
Alberto Mugnaini, “Fabio Mauri. Milano”, in Flash Art, Year XL, no. 264, Milan, June–July 2007, p. 127 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. Schermi, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Milano, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Galleria Milano, 2007), pp. 9–14, no. 25 (ill.).
Accrochage, exhibition catalogue, Punta della Dogana, Venice, edited by Caroline Bourgeois (Venice: Marsilio, 2016), p. 177 (ill.).
Au-delà de la couleur: Le noir et le blanc dans la collection Pinault, exhibition catalogue, Jacobin Convent, Rennes, edited by Jean-Jacques Aillagon (Paris: Edition Dilecta, 2021), p. 157 (ill.).
