MATERIALS: Canvas on protruding frame, transfer letters, painted aluminium frame
DIMENSIONS: 71 × 43 × 6 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed on the verso, middle: ‘Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: S_1972_3267
Schermo (Screen) on canvas with a ‘millerighe’ texture, inserted in a box frame with cardboard backing covered in the same fabric. The title of the artwork is displayed in the bottom-right-hand corner of the cardboard with Letraset transfer letters in German Gothic script. Darwin = Ende is one of forty ‘thoughts’ that Mauri presented on forty screens at the ‘Warum ein Gedanke einen Raum verpestet?/Perché un pensiero intossica una stanza?’ exhibition-installation (inv. 700): words that were significant for various reasons, arranged in a scattered order, as if in a stream of consciousness.
1972, Rome, Galleria Seconda Scala, Warum ein Gedanke einen Raum verpestet?, opening 10 November.
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.
1997, Klagenfurt, Kunsthalle, Fabio Mauri. Male e bellezza / Das Böse und das Schöne, 24 April – 30 June, curated by Arnulf Rohsmann.
1997-1998, Rome, Macro – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Arte contemporanea: Lavori in corso 2, 17 December 1997 – 10 March 1998, curated by Giovanna Bonasegale.
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2007, Rome, Galleria il Ponte, Fabio Mauri: Art Nègre, 19 June – 19 July, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.
2008, Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Fabio Mauri. L’universo d’uso, 17 April – 15 May, curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi, Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
2008, Prato, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Fatto Bene!, 18 June – 3 August, curated by Marco Bazzini.
2008, Turin, Galleria Martano, Fabio Mauri: L’insolubile, 7 November – 23 December.
2013-2014, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Anni ’70. Arte a Roma, 17 December 2013 – 2 March 2014, curated by Daniela Lancioni.
2014, Buenos Aires, Fundación PROA, Fabio Mauri, 6 September – 23 November, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
2015, New York, Hauser & Wirth, East 69th Street, Fabio Mauri. I was not new, 5 March – 2 May, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre, Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.
2018, Basel, Fair – Hauser & Wirth, Art Basel, 14–17 June.
2019, Herning, Heart Museum, Fabio Mauri: The End, 23 March – 25 August, curated by Michael Bank Christoffersen.
Marcella Cossu, “Warum ein Gedanke einen Raum verpestet? / Perché un pensiero intossica una stanza? 1972”, 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. 138–139.
