MATERIALS: Oil and tempera on wood
DIMENSIONS: 122.6 × 111.9 × 4.4 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Dated and signed on the verso, top: ‘1959 Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
COLLECTION: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
CATALOGUE: S_1959_179
A monochrome panel-schermo, painted black, mounted on a natural wooden frame, Schermo in legno nero was almost always exhibited alongside Schermi in legni bianchi (inv. 168), which had an identical format but consisted of two white monochrome panels. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1963, San Marino, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Oltre l’informale: IV Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di San Marino, 7 July – 7 October.
1969, Rome, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Fabio Mauri 1959-1969, opening 1 July, curated by Cesare Vivaldi.
1973, Milan, Galleria Cenobio Visualità, A proposito del nero, opening 9 May.
1973, Düsseldorf, Fair – Galleria Cenobio Visualità, IKI.
1988, Lyon, Musée d’Art Contemporain, La couleur seule, l’expérience du monochrome, 7 October – 5 December.
1990-1991, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma Anni Sessanta. Al di là della pittura, 20 December 1990 – 15 February 1991, curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Rosella Siligato.
1991, Vienna, Modern Kunst Museum, Bildlicht, 3 May – 7 July.
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.
1994, London, Smith’s Galleries, Four Italian Masters of Contemporary Art, 20 October – 6 December.
1995, Castelluccio di Pienza (Siena), Galleria La Tartaruga, Gli anni originali, opening 21 July, curated by Plinio De Martiis.
1997, Klagenfurt, Kunsthalle, Fabio Mauri. Male e bellezza / Das Böse und das Schöne, 24 April – 30 June, curated by Arnulf Rohsmann.
2000, Catanzaro, Complesso Monumentale del San Giovanni, Mitici Sessanta: aspetti della ricerca, 22 September – 12 November, curated by Tonino Sicoli, Massimo Di Stefano.
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2004, Rome, Palazzo della Fontana di Trevi, Plinio, 12 October.
2007, Milan, Galleria Milano, Fabio Mauri: Schermi, 3 May – 15 July.
2008, Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Fabio Mauri. L’universo d’uso, 17 April – 15 May, curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi, Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
2010, Alessandria, Palazzo del Monferrato, Roma ’60, 19 March – 4 July, curated by Luca Beatrice.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
2018-2020, Philadelphia, Edna and Stanley Tuttleman Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Surface Disappearances: Minimalist and Monochrome Painting, 19 October 2018 – 16 September 2020, curated by Erica F. Battle, The John Alchin and Hal Marryatt Associate Curator of Contemporary Art.
Fabio Mauri, exhibition catalogue, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Rome, edited by Cesare Vivaldi (Rome: Studio d’Arte Toninelli, 1969), p. 39 (ill.).
Finarte: Asta di opere contemporanee 1960/1973, Milan, 6 November 1973, no. 125, p. XCVIII (ill.).
A proposito del nero, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Cenobio Visualità, Milan (Milan, 1973), n.p. (ill.).
IKI: 3. Internationaler Markt fur aktuelle Kunst (Düsseldorf, 1973), p. 99 (ill.).
L’Immagine, edited by Giovanni Damiani (Milan: Pragma Libri / Carlini editore, 1989), p. 37 (ill.).
Maurizio Calvesi, “Roma anni '60. Al di là della pittura”, in Roma Anni ’60. Al di là della pittura, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, edited by Maurizio Calvesi, Rosella Siligato (Rome: Edizioni Carte Segrete, 1990), pp. 13–14, 63 (ill.).
Bildlicht: Malerei zwischen Material und Immaterialität, exhibition catalogue, Modern Kunst Museum, Vienna, edited by Wolfgang Drechsler, Peter Weibel (Vienna: Wiener Festwochen, 1991), p. 146 (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 (ill.).
Gli anni originali, exhibition catalogue, Galleria La Tartaruga, Castelluccio di Pienza (Siena), edited by Plinio De Martiis (Montepulciano: Editori del Grifo, 1995), p. 41 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri: Male e bellezza – Das Böse und das Schöne, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle, Klagenfurt, edited by Arnulf Rohsmann (Klagenfurt, 1997), p. 76 (ill.).
Mitici Sessanta: Aspetti della ricerca, exhibition catalogue, Complesso Monumentale del San Giovanni, Catanzaro, edited by Tonino Sicoli, Massimo di Stefano (Catanzaro: Edizioni L’Una di Sera, 2000), p. 105 (ill.).
Miriam Mirolla, Guido Zucconi, Arte del Novecento: 1945-2001, edited by Rita Scrimieri (Milan: Mondadori Università, 2002), p. 77 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. Schermi, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Milano, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Galleria Milano, 2007), no. 3 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. L’universo d’uso, exhibition catalogue, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Skira, 2008), p. 63 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri, Scritti in mostra. L’avanguardia come zona 1958-2008, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: il Saggiatore, 2008), p. 156 (ill.).
Roma ’60, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo del Monferrato, Alessandria, edited by Luca Beatrice (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2010), p. 288 (ill.).
