MATERIALS: Gauze on protruding frame, tempera on wood, and oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 125 × 113 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and dated on the verso, upper left: ‘Fabio Mauri 1962’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Galleria La Salita, Rome; Luisa Spagnoli, Rome; Auction House Christie’s (Milan, May 2008)
COLLECTION: Private collection
CATALOGUE: S_1962_284
Bipartite-structure Schermo (Screen) on canvas, featuring a geometric painting veiled by semi-transparent gauze on the upper part, and two wooden plaques with rounded corners, painted black, in the lower part. This work is part of a series of Schermi that Mauri made between 1960 and 1962, in which abstract and geometric elements from street signs introduce traces of the urban environment. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1963, Rome, Galleria La Salita, Fabio Mauri, 8–28 February.
1965, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, V Rassegna di Arti figurative di Roma e del Lazio, April–May.
1969, Rome, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Fabio Mauri 1959-1969, opening 1 July, curated by Cesare Vivaldi.
1973, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, X Quadriennale d’arte: La ricerca estetica dal 1960 al 1970, 22 May – 30 June.
V Rassegna di arti figurative di Roma e del Lazio, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (Rome: Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 1965), p. 64.
Fabio Mauri, exhibition catalogue, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Rome, edited by Cesare Vivaldi (Rome: Studio d’Arte Toninelli, 1969), p. 43 (ill.).
Amore mio, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Ricci, Montepulciano (Siena), edited by Achille Bonito Oliva (Florence: Centro Di Edizioni, 1970), n.p. (ill.).
Roma Oggi, no. 6–7, Rome, June–July 1973, (ill.).
