MATERIALS: Gauze on protruding frame, tempera on wood, disc and enamel on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 125 × 115 × 5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Dated and titled on the verso, upper left: ‘Fabio Mauri / 1962 / Roma / Drive Inn 2’
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
COLLECTION: Pinault Collection
CATALOGUE: S_1962_156
A Schermo (Screen) on canvas, at the top Drive-in 2 features a geometric painting with a disc at the centre, veiled by semi-transparent gauze, and at the bottom, three wooden plaques with rounded corners, painted black. This work is part of a series of Schermi that Mauri made between 1960 and 1962, in which abstract and geometric elements from street signs introduce traces of the urban context. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1963, San Marino, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Oltre l’informale: IV Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di San Marino, 7 July – 7 October.
1965, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, V Rassegna di Arti figurative di Roma e del Lazio, April–May.
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.
2000, Trissino (Vicenza), Former Town Hall, Pop Art: Perché Roma, 9 September – 1 October.
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2016, Venice, Punta della Dogana, Accrochage, 17 April – 20 November, curated by Caroline Bourgeois.
2024-2025, Paris, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Arte Povera, 9 October 2024 – 20 January 2025, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
Oltre l’informale, exhibition catalogue, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Marino (San Marino, 1963), p. 113 (ill.).
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. 103 (ill.).
Pop Art: Perché Roma, exhibition catalogue, Former Town Hall, Trissino (Vicenza), edited by Franco Farina, Simonetta Lux (Trissino: Comune di Trissino, 2000), p. 41 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. L’écran mental, exhibition catalogue, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing-Lille, edited by Dominique Païni (Lille, 2003), p. 67 (ill.).
Accrochage, exhibition catalogue, Punta della Dogana, Venice, edited by Caroline Bourgeois (Venice: Marsilio, 2016), p. 184 (ill.).
Angela Vettese, “Fabio Mauri”, in Pinault Collection, no. 6, Paris, April–September 2016, pp. 98–99 (ill.).
Valérie Da Costa, Fabio Mauri: le passé en actes (Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2018), no. 14, p. 31 (ill.).
