MATERIALS: Decal and mixed media on paper
DIMENSIONS: 60 × 100 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed on the recto, lower right: ‘Fabio Mauri ’63’
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
COLLECTION: Private collection, Milan
CATALOGUE: S_1963_163
Screen-drawing characterised by a black band painted around the edges of a sheet of paper, defining a ‘field for projection’ within which images from newspapers and magazines have been transferred, using a solvent. Around the central inscription ‘FINE’ (THE END), Successo della morte di mio padre (called Famiglia/Family in some published material) are evanescent images of elegant men. 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.
1970, Naples, Palazzo Reale, 5º Rassegna d’Arte del Mezzogiorno: Grafica Italiana, 5 January – 5 February.
1976, Rome, Galleria Cannaviello, Drawings / Disegni.
1981, Verona, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Campionario ’60-’68, 6–30 August.
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.
1997, Klagenfurt, Kunsthalle, Fabio Mauri. Male e bellezza / Das Böse und das Schöne, 24 April – 30 June, curated by Arnulf Rohsmann.
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2004, Busto Arsizio (Varese), Fondazione Bandera per l’Arte, Il disegno nell’arte italiana dal 1945 al 1975: da Morandi al Concettuale, 28 March – 30 May, curated by Angela Madesani.
2005, Ancona, Mole Vanvitelliana, Tra astrazione e anacronismo: l’opera al nero, 22 July – 2 October, curated by Stefano Tonti.
2007, Milan, Galleria Milano, Fabio Mauri: Schermi, 3 May – 15 July.
Fabio Mauri, exhibition catalogue, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Rome, edited by Cesare Vivaldi (Rome: Studio d’Arte Toninelli, 1969), p. 59 (ill.).
Quinta rassegna d’arte del mezzogiorno: Grafica italiana, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Reale, Naples (Naples, 1970), .
Campionario ’60-’80: Alternative italiane alla Pop Art e al Nouveau Réalisme, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona, edited by Luigi Meneghelli, Alessandro Mozzambani (Verona: Comune di Verona, 1981), no. 40, p. 91 (ill.).
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.).
Fabio Mauri. L’écran mental, exhibition catalogue, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing-Lille, edited by Dominique Païni (Lille, 2003), p. 48 (ill.).
Angela Madesani, “Il lungo cammino del disegno nell’arte italiana (1945-75)”, in Il disegno nell’arte italiana dal 1945 al 1975: da Morandi al Concettuale, exhibition catalogue, Fondazione Bandera per l’Arte, Busto Arsizio, edited by Angela Madesani (Busto Arsizio: Fondazione Bandera per l’Arte, 2004), pp. 21, 53 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. Schermi, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Milano, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Galleria Milano, 2007), pp. 9–14, no. 4 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Scritti in mostra. L’avanguardia come zona 1958-2008, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: il Saggiatore, 2008), p. 162 (ill.).
Raffaella Perna, In forma di fotografia: Ricerche artistiche in Italia dal 1960 al 1970 (Rome: DeriveApprodi, 2009), p. 63.
Valérie Da Costa, Fabio Mauri: le passé en actes (Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2018), no. 5, p. 19 (ill.).
