MATERIALS: Tempera on wood
DIMENSIONS: 123.5 × 112.5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, dated and titled on the verso, upper left: ‘Fabio Mauri 1962 / DRIVE INN’, lower right: ‘SCHERMO-CASA’’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Eugenio Battisti, Rome; Museo Sperimentale d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
COLLECTION: GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Museo Sperimentale, Turin
CATALOGUE: S_1962_173
This Schermo (Screen) on panel is characterised by twenty black-painted wooden plaques with rounded corners, arranged in five rows by four columns. This work is part of a series of Schermi that Mauri made between 1960 and 1962, in which abstract and geometric elements introduce traces of the urban context into the work. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1963, Rome, Galleria La Salita, Fabio Mauri, 8–28 February.
1963, San Marino, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Oltre l’informale: IV Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di San Marino, 7 July – 7 October.
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.
Udo Kultermann, Nuove forme della pittura (Milan: Feltrinelli, 1969), p. 41, no. 390, p. 162 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, exhibition catalogue, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Rome, edited by Cesare Vivaldi (Rome: Studio d’Arte Toninelli, 1969), p. 48 (ill.).
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, “I prototipi: schermi. 1957-1994”, in 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), pp. 78–83, 94 (ill.).
