MATERIALS: Gauze on protruding frame, enamel on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 125 × 114 × 4 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, titled and dated on the verso, upper right: ‘Fabio Mauri / Schermo verde / 61-62’
PROVENANCE: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
COLLECTION: Sammlung Goetz, Munich
CATALOGUE: S_1961_184
Bipartite-structure, Schermo (Screen) on canvas, featuring a geometric painting veiled by semi-transparent gauze at the top, slightly overhanging a monochrome green background. This work is part of a series of Schermi that Mauri made between 1960 and 1962, in which abstract elements, taken from street signs, introduce traces of the urban context. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1963, Rome, Galleria La Tartaruga, Tredici Pittori a Roma, opening 9 February.
1969, Rome, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Fabio Mauri 1959-1969, opening 1 July, curated by Cesare Vivaldi.
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.
2000, Trissino (Vicenza), Former Town Hall, Pop Art: Perché Roma, 9 September – 1 October.
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2007-2008, Caraglio (Cuneo), Il Filatoio, Il velo, 28 October 2007 – 24 February 2008, curated by Andrea Busto.
2010, Milan, Rotonda della Besana, Il grande gioco, 24 February – 9 May, curated by Luigi Cavadini, Bruno Corà, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
2011, Los Angeles, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, When in Rome, 21 April – 21 May, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, Valerio Mannucci.
2018-2019, Bolzano, Museion, Tutto. Prospettive sull’arte italiana, 12 October 2018 – 24 March 2019, curated by Ingvild Goetz, Leo Lencsés, Karsten Löckemann, Letizia Ragaglia, Elena Re.
2019-2020, Munich, Sammlung Goetz, Tutto. Perspektiven Italienischer Kunst, 19 September 2019 – 29 February 2020, curated by Ingvild Goetz, Leo Lencsés, Karsten Löckemann, Letizia Ragaglia, Elena Re (travelling: 2018, Bolzano).
13 Pittori a Roma, exhibition catalogue, Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome (Rome: Galleria La Tartaruga, 1963), n.p.
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. 103 (ill.).
Pop Art: Perché Roma, exhibition catalogue, Former Town Hall, Trissino (Vicenza), edited by Franco Farina, Simonetta Lux (Trissino: Comune di Trissino, 2000), p. 40 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. L’écran mental, exhibition catalogue, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing-Lille, edited by Dominique Païni (Lille, 2003), p. 66 (ill.).
Il Velo: tra mistero, seduzione, misticismo, sensualità, potere e religione, exhibition catalogue, Il Filatoio, Caraglio (Cuneo), edited by Andrea Busto (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2007), p. 223 (ill.).
Mario De Candia, “Mauri, oltre gli schermi pioniere della ricerca”, in Trovaroma, Rome, 17-23 April 2008, p. 51 (ill.).
Il grande gioco: Forme d’arte in Italia 1947-1989, exhibition catalogue, Rotonda della Besana, Milan, edited by Luigi Cavadini, Bruno Corà, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2010), p. 142 (ill.).
Tutto. Prospettive sull’arte italiana, exhibition catalogue, Museion, Bolzano, edited by Ingvild Goetz, Leo Lencsés, Karsten Löckemann, Letizia Ragaglia (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2018), p. 209 (ill.).
