DIMENSIONS: 56.5 × 56.5 × 4.4 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed, dated and titled on the verso: ‘Fabio Mauri / The END 3 (1959) / Restaurato in occasione della mostra Minimalia / Venezia 97’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Dominique Païni, Paris
COLLECTION: Private collection, Rome
CATALOGUE: S_1959_193
A sheet of semi-transparent paper with the words ‘THE END’ in the centre, pulled taut to screen a black wooden square with rounded corners, divided into two halves juxtaposed vertically against a white background, spaced a few inches apart. Two identical versions of this Schermo (Screen) were made (inv. 192, 193). For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1997, Klagenfurt, Kunsthalle, Fabio Mauri. Male e bellezza / Das Böse und das Schöne, 24 April – 30 June, curated by Arnulf Rohsmann.
1998, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Minimalia. Da Giacomo Balla a…, 29 January – 6 April, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva (travelling: 1997, Venice).
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
2024, Principality of Monaco, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Pasolini in chiaroscuro, 29 March – 29 September, curated by Guillaume de Sardes.
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, 88 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. L’écran mental, exhibition catalogue, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing-Lille, edited by Dominique Païni (Lille, 2003), p. 90 (ill.).
Guillaume de Sardes, “Pasolini. The friendship with Fabio Mauri”, in Pasolini in chiaroscuro, exhibition catalogue, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Principality of Monaco, edited by Guillaume de Sardes (Paris: Flammarion, 2024), p. 97 (ill.).
