MATERIALS: Enamel on canvas on protruding frame, wooden painted frame
DIMENSIONS: 225 × 150 × 8 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, dated and titled on the verso, lower left: ‘Fabio Mauri 1970’, middle: ‘Fabio Mauri “FIN 70”/ “Vitalità del negativo” Roma’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Galleria San Michele, Brescia; Studio C, Brescia; private collection, Florence
COLLECTION: Private collection
CATALOGUE: S_1970_144
‘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 screen is the French inscription ‘FIN’ (THE END), a leitmotif in Mauri’s work and an indicator that a screening 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.
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.).
