MATERIALS: Oil on grey screen back
DIMENSIONS: 62 × 42 × 5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed on the verso, lower left: ‘Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Private collection, Rome
CATALOGUE: S_1965_151
Picture made on the rear of a ‘first-generation’ Schermo (Screen), the frame of which can be discerned, divided horizontally into two parts: at the top, the Schermo in composite grey; at the bottom, a band with an inscription in red oil, ‘cinoema’, in which the diphthong appears to be intended as a way of Latinising the term. 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.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
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. 104 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Io sono un ariano (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2009), p. 38 (ill.).
Marco Vallora, “Fabio Mauri e il linguaggio della memoria”, in Arte, Milan, November 2016, p. 21 (ill.).
