MATERIALS: Wooden frame, paper and gesso on wood, iron, glass
DIMENSIONS: 100.5 × 70 × 9.5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, titled and dated on the upper verso: ‘Fabio Mauri. Schermo 1957-1990’
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
COLLECTION: Pinault Collection
CATALOGUE: S_1990_171
Picture consisting of a broken ‘first-generation’ paper Schermo (Screen) mounted in the centre of a white monochrome panel, within a frame that leaves it open on either side. Rather than restoring it, Mauri displayed the damaged work as an object represented in its material fragility, subject to the passage of Time and History. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
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, Verona, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Palazzo Forti, Dadaismo e dadaismi: 300 capolavori in mostra da Duchamp a Warhol, 18 July – 9 November, curated by Giorgio Cortenova.
2007, Castiglioncello (Livorno), Castello Pasquini, Il cinema dei pittori, 14 July – 4 November, curated by Francesco Galluzzi.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
2016, Venice, Punta della Dogana, Accrochage, 17 April – 20 November, curated by Caroline Bourgeois.
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. 107 (ill.).
Dadaismo dadaismi: Da Duchamp a Warhol, exhibition catalogue, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Palazzo Forti, Verona, edited by Giorgio Cortenova (Milan: Electa, 1997), p. 208 (ill.).
Il cinema dei pittori: Le arti e il cinema italiano 1940-1980, exhibition catalogue, Castello Pasquini, Castiglioncello (Livorno), edited by Francesco Galluzzi (Milan: Skira, 2007), p. 146 (ill.).
Accrochage, exhibition catalogue, Punta della Dogana, Venice, edited by Caroline Bourgeois (Venice: Marsilio, 2016), p. 178 (ill.).
Angela Vettese, “Fabio Mauri”, in Pinault Collection, no. 6, Paris, April–September 2016, pp. 100–101 (ill.).
