DIMENSIONS: 195 × 155 × 8 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed on the verso, middle right: ‘Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome; Hauser & Wirth
COLLECTION: Private collection
CATALOGUE: S_1970_134
‘Second-generation’ Schermo (Screen) composed of painted white canvas stretched over a projecting wooden frame, surrounded by a black frame without any glass. In the centre of the projecting part is the inscription ‘THE END’, a leitmotif in Mauri’s work and an indicator that a projection has just taken place.
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.
2012, Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, dOCUMENTA(13), 9 June – 16 September, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
2013, Rome, Macro – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Ritratto di una città #2. Arte a Roma 1960-2001, 16 May – 8 September.
2014, Buenos Aires, Fundación PROA, Fabio Mauri, 6 September – 23 November, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
2015, New York, Hauser & Wirth, East 69th Street, Fabio Mauri. I was not new, 5 March – 2 May, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
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. 24 (ill.).
dOCUMENTA (13). Das Logbuch / The Logbook, exhibition catalogue, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), p. 161 (ill.).
Laura Cherubini, “Schermi”, in Fabio Mauri. Ideology and Memory, edited by Studio Fabio Mauri (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2012), pp. 25–26, 34 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. I was not new, exhibition catalogue, Hauser & Wirth, East 69th Street, New York (New York: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2015), p. 1 (ill.).
