MATERIALS: Oil on paper
DIMENSIONS: 70 × 100 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed on the recto, lower right: ‘mauri’. Signed and dated on the verso of the frame: ‘Fabio Mauri ’63 / Roma’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: S_1963_164
Screen-drawing characterised by a black band painted around the edges of a sheet of paper, framing a white field in which, from the lower-left-hand corner, a red-painted finger points to the central inscription, ‘fine’ (the end). For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1998, Castelluccio di Pienza (Siena), Galleria La Tartaruga, Per il clima felice degli anni Sessanta, 4 July – 20 August.
2007, Roseto degli Abruzzi (Teramo), Medieval village, Montepagano, Trasalimenti: Castellarte 07, 15 July – 5 September, curated by Gabriele di Pietro.
2008, São Paulo, MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Viaggio nell’arte italiana 1950-80: Cento opere dalla Collezione Farnesina, 8 August – 15 September, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova (travelling: 2007, Sarajevo).
2008, Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Viaggio nell’arte italiana 1950-80. Cento opere dalla Collezione Farnesina, 9 October – 9 November, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova (travelling: 2007, Sarajevo).
2008-2009, Guadalajara, Museo de las Artes Universidad de Guadalajara, Viaggio nell’arte italiana 1950-80: Cento opere dalla Collezione Farnesina, 28 November 2008 – 4 January 2009, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova (travelling: 2007, Sarajevo).
2008, Santiago de Chile, Viaggio nell’arte italiana 1950-80: Cento opere dalla Collezione Farnesina, 17 March – 20 April, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova (travelling: 2007, Sarajevo).
2016-2017, Bergamo, GAMeC, Fabio Mauri: Arte per legittima difesa, 7 October 2016 – 15 January 2017, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
2019, Herning, Heart Museum, Fabio Mauri: The End, 23 March – 25 August, curated by Michael Bank Christoffersen.
Per il clima felice degli anni Sessanta, exhibition catalogue, Galleria La Tartaruga, Castelluccio di Pienza (Siena), edited by Plinio De Martiis (San Quirico d’Orcia, Siena: Editrice DonChisciotte, 1998), p. 65 (ill.).
“La creatività anni Sessanta”, in la Repubblica, Rome, 8 August 1998, p. 10 (ill.).
Gigliola Lai, “Fabio Mauri - Schermi”, in Trasalimenti: progetto per l’arte contemporanea, exhibition catalogue, Medieval village, Montepagano, Roseto degli Abruzzi (Teramo), edited by Gabriele Di Pietro (Roseto degli Abruzzi: Castellarte, 2007), p. 26 (ill.).
Heart Museum, Spring–Summer 2019, p. 55 (ill.).
