MATERIALS: Photograph and mixed media on paper
DIMENSIONS: 99.7 × 69 × 10 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and dated on the recto, lower right: ‘mauri 64’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Achille Mauri, Milan
CATALOGUE: S_1964 _57
Picture composed of a half-length photograph of a woman whose face is covered by a screen-drawing, to which a black cardboard tube has been applied. Although the woman portrayed is actress/model Elsa Martinelli, Mauri titled the work Marilyn, referencing the celebrated American star Marilyn Monroe, dead for just two years at the time and already the quintessential pop icon, her name effectively representing all movie godesses. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
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.
1999-2000, Parma, Galleria d’Arte Niccoli, L’Arte Pop in Italia, 18 December 1999 – 6 March 2000, curated by Plinio De Martiis.
2000, Nuoro, MAN – Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, L’Arte Pop in Italia, 24 March – 7 May, curated by Plinio De Martiis.
2003, Tourcoing-Lille, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Fabio Mauri – L’écran mental, 1 March – 27 April, curated by Dominique Païni.
2005, Modena, Galleria Civica, Palazzo Santa Margherita and Palazzina dei Giardini, Pop Art Italia 1958-1968, 17 April – 3 July, curated by Walter Guadagnini.
2007, Castiglioncello (Livorno), Castello Pasquini, Il cinema dei pittori, 14 July – 4 November, curated by Francesco Galluzzi.
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.
2019, London, Fair – Hauser & Wirth, Frieze Masters, 3–6 October.
2022, Nice, MAMAC – Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Vita Nuova: Nouveaux enjeux de l’art en Italie 1960-1975, 14 May – 2 October, curated by Valérie Da Costa.
2023, Zurich, Hauser & Wirth, Fabio Mauri. Amore mio, 30 September – 23 December, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément.
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), p. 105 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri: Male e bellezza – Das Böse und das Schöne, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle, Klagenfurt, edited by Arnulf Rohsmann (Klagenfurt, 1997), p. 42 (ill.).
L’arte pop in italia: Pittura, design e grafica negli anni Sessanta, exhibition catalogue, Galleria d’Arte Niccoli, Parma, edited by Plinio De Martiis (Parma, 1999), p. 89 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. L’écran mental, exhibition catalogue, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing-Lille, edited by Dominique Païni (Lille, 2003), p. 70 (ill.).
Manou Farine, “Fabio Mauri, l'indispensable hommage”, in L’oeil, no. 546, Artclair editions, Lille, April 2003, p. 107 (ill.).
Pop Art Italia: 1958-1968, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Civica, Palazzo Santa Margherita and Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena, edited by Walter Guadagnini (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2005), p. 89 (ill.).
Il cinema dei pittori: Le arti e il cinema italiano 1940-1980, exhibition catalogue, Castello Pasquini, Castiglioncello (Livorno), edited by Francesco Galluzzi (Milan: Skira, 2007), p. 148 (ill.).
Federica Boràgina, Fabio Mauri. Che cosa è, se è, l’ideologia nell’arte (Catanzaro: Rubbettino editore, 2012), no. 3, p. 43 (ill.).
Elisabetta Catalano, Work with Fabio Mauri, edited by Laura Cherubini (Milan: Maretti Editore, 2013), p. 6 (ill.).
Before or After, at the Same Time: Rome, Milan, and Fabio Mauri, 1948–1968, edited by Ben Eastham (Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2019), p. 73 (ill.).
Vita Nuova: Nouveaux enjeux de l’art en Italie 1960-1975, exhibition catalogue, MAMAC – Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, edited by Valérie Da Costa (Gand: Snoek, 2022), p. 29 (ill.).
