MATERIALS: Canvas on protruding frame
DIMENSIONS: 60 × 43 × 5 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist; VAF Stiftung, Francoforte; private collection, Rome; private collection, Milan
COLLECTION: Private collection
CATALOGUE: S_1959_3408
‘First-generation’ Schermo (Screen) composed of a double canvas stretched on a shaped, projecting wooden frame. Some moisture stains are visible at the bottom of the Schermo, which Mauri decided not to conceal. He exhibited the work, marked by time, at the 2008 ‘L’universo d’uso’ exhibition at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1997, Venice, Palazzo Querini Dubois, Minimalia. Da Giacomo Balla a…, 12 June – 12 October, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.
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.
2007, Milan, Galleria Milano, Fabio Mauri: Schermi, 3 May – 15 July.
2008, Karlsruhe, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Rom: Offenene Malerei: Das materialbild im Italien der 1950er und 1960er Jahre, 4 April – 24 August, curated by Peter Weibel.
2008, Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Fabio Mauri. L’universo d’uso, 17 April – 15 May, curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi, Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
2016, Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma), Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Italia Pop. L’arte negli anni del boom, 10 September – 11 December, curated by Walter Guadagnini, Stefano Roffi.
Materialbild, Material Picture, Immagine materiale: Italia 1950-1965, exhibition catalogue, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, edited by Peter Weibel (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2009), p. 300 (ill.).
VAF Stiftung: La collezione, edited by Daniela Ferrari (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2012), p. 618 (ill.).
Italia Pop: L’arte negli anni del boom, exhibition catalogue, Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma), edited by Walter Guadagnini, Stefano Roffi (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2016), p. 88 (ill.).
