MATERIALS: Tempera, ink and decal on paper
DIMENSIONS: 69.5 × 99.5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and dated on the recto, lower right: ‘fabio mauri ’64’. Dated and titled on the verso in capital letters: ‘Fabio Mauri “Congresso” 1964’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: S_1964_162
Screen-drawing characterised by a black frame painted around the edges of a sheet of paper, defining a ‘field for projection’ within which a photograph from a Young Conservatives meeting was transferred, using the decalcomania technique. The name is visible, in reverse on the banner in the upper left-hand corner. 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.
1983, Pavia, Castello Visconteo, Il Pop Art e l’Italia, June – September, curated by Rossana Bossaglia, Susanna Zatti.
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.
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2016, Rome, Macro – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Roma Pop City, 12 July – 27 November, curated by Claudio Crescentini, Costantino D'Orazio, Federica Pirani.
2019, Geneva, Musée des Suisses dans le monde – Château de Penthes, Art et presse: libre échange, 1 May – 30 October, curated by Guillaume de Sardes.
Il Pop Art e l’Italia, exhibition catalogue, Castello Visconteo, Pavia, edited by Rossana Bossaglia, Susanna Zatti (Milan: Mazzotta, 1983), p. 28 (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. 74 (ill.).
Raffaella Perna, In forma di fotografia: Ricerche artistiche in Italia dal 1960 al 1970 (Rome: DeriveApprodi, 2009), p. 63.
