DIMENSIONS: 225 × 150 × 8 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, dated and titled on the verso, right side: ‘Fabio Mauri esemplare unico 1970’, middle: ‘Fabio Mauri / “The End 70” / “Vitalità del negativo”’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Studio C, Brescia ; private collection, Brescia
COLLECTION: Frediani collection, Brescia
CATALOGUE: S_1970_137
‘Second-generation’ Schermo (Screen) composed of white-painted canvas stretched over a projecting wooden frame, surrounded by a black frame without any glass. In the centre of the upper half is the inscription ‘THE END’, a leitmotif in Mauri’s work and an indicator that a projection has just taken place. This work was one of four screens introducing the Luna (inv. 922) installation at the 1970 ‘Vitalità del Negativo’ (Vitality of the Negative) exhibition, using the word ‘end’ in Italian, English, German and French, as documented in Ugo Mulas’ photographs. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1970-1971, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Vitalità del negativo nell’arte italiana 1960-1970, 30 November 1970 – 31 January 1971, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.
2025-2026, Busca, Cherasco, Palazzo Salmatoris, Cherasco and Casa Francotto, SBAM. Un percorso nella Pop Art, 11 October 2025 – 22 February 2026, curated by Cinzia Tesio, Riccardo Gattolin.
Vitalità del negativo nell’arte italiana 1960/70, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, edited by Achille Bonito Oliva (Florence: Centro Di Edizioni, 1970), n.p. (ill.).
