DIMENSIONS: 64 × 51 × 7 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist; Giovanni Fabio Gariboldi, Milan
COLLECTION: Private collection, Milan
CATALOGUE: S_1960_158
‘First-generation’ Schermo (Screen) composed of canvas stretched over a painted wooden panel, with a projecting wooden moulding in the upper half. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1960, Rome, Galleria San Marco, Salone d’Estate della Pittura Romana, August.
1960, Termoli (Campobasso), Castello Svevo, Town Hall, 5 Premio Termoli: Mostra nazionale d’arte contemporanea, 3–28 August.
1961, Rome, Galleria La Tartaruga, Collettiva Internazionale, opening 19 October.
1962, Rome, Galleria La Salita, Oggetto-Pittura, opening 28 April, curated by Cesare Vivaldi.
1965, Rome, Arco d’Alibert – Studio d’Arte, Fabio Mauri: Gli Schermi, 5–20 March.
1969, Rome, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Fabio Mauri 1959-1969, opening 1 July, curated by Cesare Vivaldi.
1977, Turin, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Arte in Italia 1960/1977. Dall’opera al coinvolgimento. L’opera: simboli e immagini. La linea analitica, opening 28 May, curated by RENATO BARILLI, ANTONIO DEL GUERCIO, FILIBERTO MENNA.
1988-1989, Imola, Cloister of San Domenico, Intorno al Sessanta. Aspetti dell’arte italiana dopo l’informale: 1958-1964, 17 December 1988 – 26 February 1989, curated by Claudio Spadoni.
1991, Rome, Palazzo dei Congressi, 60-90: Trent’anni di avanguardie romane, 14–18 March, curated by Laura Cherubini, Arnaldo Romani Brizzi.
1992, Annecy, Musée-Château, 60-90. Trente ans d’avant-gardes romaines, 19 October – 30 November (travelling: 1991, Rome).
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.
Fabio Mauri, exhibition catalogue, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Rome, edited by Cesare Vivaldi (Rome: Studio d’Arte Toninelli, 1969), p. 44 (ill.).
Arte in Italia 1960/1977. Dall’opera al coinvolgimento. L’opera: simboli e immagini. La linea analitica, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, edited by RENATO BARILLI, ANTONIO DEL GUERCIO, FILIBERTO MENNA (Turin, 1977), p. 187 (ill.).
Anabasi: Architettura e arte 1960/1980, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Termoli, edited by Carmine Benincasa (Termoli: Dedalo libri, 1980), p. 151 (ill.).
Intorno al Sessanta, exhibition catalogue, Cloister of San Domenico, Imola, edited by Claudio Spadoni (Milan: Electa, 1988), no. 78 (ill.).
60-90: Trenta anni di avanguardie romane, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo dei Congressi, Rome, edited by Laura Cherubini, Arnaldo Romani Brizzi (Rome: Edizioni Carte Segrete, 1991), p. 92 (ill.).
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “I prototipi: schermi. 1957-1994”, in 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), pp. 78–83, 88 (ill.).
Flaminio Gualdoni, Arte in Italia 1943-1999 (Vicenza: Neri Pozza Editore, 2000), (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. L’écran mental, exhibition catalogue, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing-Lille, edited by Dominique Païni (Lille, 2003), p. 65 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Scritti in mostra. L’avanguardia come zona 1958-2008, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: il Saggiatore, 2008), p. 161 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Io sono un ariano (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2009), p. 37 (ill.).
