MATERIALS: Mixed media on paper
DIMENSIONS: 70 × 100 cm
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome; Hauser & Wirth
COLLECTION: The Abu Ghazaleh Family Collection, Jordan
CATALOGUE: S_1968_1779
Mixed-media work on paper depicting the interior of a movie theatre on whose screen, behind the words ‘THE END’, we see a figure of a woman and the names of the actresses in Jovanka e le alter (Jovanka and the Others), a film based on the novel of that name by Ugo Pirro, published by Mauri’s uncle, Valentino Bompiani. Presenting a wealth of technical prowess, the work combines tempera, graphite, transfers of printed images using trichloroethylene, collage, ink, charcoal, pastel and synthetic oil enamel. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
2012, Milan, Palazzo Reale, Fabio Mauri – The End, 19 June – 23 September, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
2014, Buenos Aires, Fundación PROA, Fabio Mauri, 6 September – 23 November, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
2015, Venice, Giardini di Castello, Central Pavilion, 56. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – All the World’s Futures, 9 May – 22 November, curated by Okwui Enwezor.
2015-2016, Bonn, Kunstmuseum, TeleGen. Kunst und Fernsehen, 1 October 2015 – 17 January 2016, curated by Dieter Daniels, Stephan Berg.
2016, Vaduz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, TeleGen. Kunst und Fernsehen, 19 February – 16 May, curated by Dieter Daniels, Stephan Berg (travelling: 2015, Bonn).
Fabio Mauri. The End, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Reale, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Skira, 2012), p. 160 (ill.).
Lea Mattarella, “La storia come tragedia”, in Arte, no. 467, Milan, July 2012, p. 80 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, exhibition catalogue, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, edited by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio (Buenos Aires, 2014), p. 21 (ill.).
TeleGen: Kunst und Fernsehehn / Art and Television, exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, edited by Stephan Berg, Dieter Daniels (Bonn: Hirmer Verlag, 2015), pp. 140, 143 (ill.).
56. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte: All the World’s Futures: Mostra, exhibition catalogue, La Biennale, Venice, edited by Okwui Enzewor (Venice: Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia / Marsilio, 2015), pp. 136–137 (ill.), 615.
