MATERIALS: Gauze on protruding frame, tempera on wood, and oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 125 × 113 × 5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, dated and titled on the verso, upper right: ‘Fabio Mauri 1962 Roma / “Drive-inn 10”’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Galleria Liverani, Rome; Collezione Oddi Baglioni, Rome; Galleria d’Arte Niccoli, Parma; private collection, Cassola; Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice
COLLECTION: Private collection, Sion
ON LOAN: Fondation Mattioli-Rossi, Sion
CATALOGUE: S_1962_157
Bipartite-structure, Schermo (Screen) on canvas, featuring a geometric painting veiled by semi-transparent gauze in the upper part, and a wooden bar painted red in the lower part. This work is part of a series of Schermi that the artist made between 1960 and 1962, in which abstract elements, borrowed from street signs, usher in traces of the urban context. Over the years, the work has been referenced with the alternative titles Drive-in 10 or Drive-in House. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1969, Rome, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Fabio Mauri 1959-1969, opening 1 July, curated by Cesare Vivaldi.
1973, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, X Quadriennale d’arte: La ricerca estetica dal 1960 al 1970, 22 May – 30 June.
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.
2007, Chieti, Museo archeologico nazionale d’Abruzzo, Pop Art: La via italiana, 6 July – 15 October, curated by Gabriele Simongini.
2007, Pescara, Museo d’Arte Moderna “Vittoria Colonna”, L’Arte e la Tartaruga, 3 March – 20 May, curated by Silvia Pegoraro.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
2016, Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Imagine, 23 April – 19 September, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero.
2018-2019, Geneva, MAMCO, Fabio Mauri, 10 October 2018 – 3 February 2019, curated by Lionel Bovier.
Fabio Mauri, exhibition catalogue, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Rome, edited by Cesare Vivaldi (Rome: Studio d’Arte Toninelli, 1969), p. 41 (ill.).
Amore mio, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Ricci, Montepulciano (Siena), edited by Achille Bonito Oliva (Florence: Centro Di Edizioni, 1970), n.p. (ill.).
Radiocorriere, Rome, 3-9 June 1973, (ill.).
Lara-Vinca Masini, Arte contemporanea. La linea dell’unicità: Arte come volontà e non rappresentazione (Florence: Giunti, 1989), p. 1065 (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. 102 (ill.).
Omaggio a Gian Tomaso Liverani: Gentiluomo faentino e gallerista d’avanguardia, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Comunale d’Arte, Faenza, edited by Daniela Lancioni (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C., 2002), p. 24 (ill.).
La grande svolta anni ’60: Viaggio negli anni Sessanta in Italia, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, edited by Virginia Baradel, Ennio Ludovico Chiggio, Roberto Masiero (Milan: Skira, 2003), p. 91 (ill.).
Lara-Vinca Masini, L’Arte del Novecento n.6: Dall’Espressionismo al Multimediale (Rome: Gruppo editoriale L’Espresso, 2003), p. 1065 (ill.).
Pop Art. La via italiana. Omaggio a Mimmo Rotella, exhibition catalogue, Museo archeologico nazionale d’Abruzzo, Chieti, edited by Gabriele Simongini (Chieti: Museo archeologico nazionale d’Abruzzo, 2007), pp. 65, 116 (ill.).
L’Arte e la Tartaruga: omaggio a Plinio De Martiis: Da Rauschenberg a Warhol, da Butti a Schifano, exhibition catalogue, Museo d’Arte Moderna "Vittoria Colonna", Pescara, edited by Silvia Pegoraro (Milan: Skira, 2007), p. 106, (ill.).
Imagine. Nuove immagini nell’arte italiana 1960-1969, exhibition catalogue, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, edited by Luca Massimo Barbero (Venice: Marsilio, 2016), p. 45 (ill.), 34.
