MATERIALS: Canvas on protruding frame, transfer letters, painted aluminium frame
DIMENSIONS: 71 × 43 × 6 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist; Pierre Riches, Rome
COLLECTION: Maria Piera Leonetti, Naples
CATALOGUE: S_1972_3537
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. Wer ist noch da 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.
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.
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.
