MATERIALS: Gauze on protruding frame, tempera on canvas and wood
DIMENSIONS: 126 × 112 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist; Nanette Wolfer
COLLECTION: National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome
CATALOGUE: S_1960_177
Schermo (Screen) on canvas, divided horizontally into two halves: in the upper half, a painted disc veiled by semi-transparent gauze forms a slightly outward-projecting schermo; in the lower half, eight black plaques with rounded corners, arranged in two rows by four columns. ‘The record is not placed on the surface but inside, as if the schermo were a container of possible realities […] I had an interest in the new language of contemporary society, the language of the media. I always channelled it back to the screen. I have always had a passion for objects like, for example, 45 rpm records.’1 For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1. F. Mauri in Trasalimenti: progetto per l'arte contemporanea, catalogue of the exhibition (Borgo Medievale, Montepagano, Roseto degli Abruzzi, 2007), Castellarte, Roseto degli Abruzzi 2007, n.p.
1969, Rome, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Fabio Mauri 1959-1969, opening 1 July, curated by Cesare Vivaldi.
1986, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Arte Astratta 1952-1981, June–September, curated by Ida Panicelli.
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.
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2014, Rome, Villa Medici, Painting or how to get rid of it, 11 June – 14 September, curated by Éric de Chassey.
Fabio Mauri, exhibition catalogue, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Rome, edited by Cesare Vivaldi (Rome: Studio d’Arte Toninelli, 1969), p. 42 (ill.).
Amore mio, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Ricci, Montepulciano (Siena), edited by Achille Bonito Oliva (Florence: Centro Di Edizioni, 1970), n.p. (ill.).
Arte Astratta 1952/1981 dalle collezioni della Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, edited by Ida Panicelli (Rome, 1986), n.p. (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, 93 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. L’écran mental, exhibition catalogue, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing-Lille, edited by Dominique Païni (Lille, 2003), p. 64 (ill.).
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna & Maxxi. Le collezioni 1958-2008, edited by Stefania Frezzotti, Carolina Italiano, Angelandreina Rorro (Milan: Electa, 2009), p. 456 (ill.).
La peinture ou comment s’en débarrasser, exhibition catalogue, Villa Medici, Rome, edited by Éric de Chassey (Rome: Drago, 2014), pp. 10, 13 (ill.).
