Screen-drawing characterised by a frame painted around the edges of a sheet of paper, defining a ‘field for projection’ within which a photograph of a dance by the Kessler twins, famous Italian showgirls of the day, is presented through the use of a solvent. The words ‘THE END’ in red in the centre of the image, the cones of light traced in ink, and the letters painted along the sheet’s black edges all focus our attention on the media machine upstream of the image. As Cesare Vivaldi noted, ‘It is not the subject that interests Mauri, but rather the fact that the evoked subject springs from the shadows through light from a projector, beams of light highlighted through deep marks and pencil. Once again, the focus shifts from the image to what generates it, from the event to what determines it.’1 For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.

1. C. Vivaldi in Fabio Mauri, catalogue of the exhibition (Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Rome, 1969), edited by C. Vivaldi, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Rome, 1969, p. 9.