INV. No 75
Smoking
1969
ON PAPER
ENGLISH TITLE: Smoking
MATERIALS: Oil and tempera on paper
DIMENSIONS: 69.5 × 99 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Santiago Mauri, Milan
CATALOGUE: S_1969_75
NOTE:

Screen-drawing characterised by a black frame painted along the sheet’s edges, defining a ‘field for projection’ featuring a cone of yellow light projected onto a movie screen, presented in perspective. In the lower left-hand corner, a pencil-drawn cigarette, emitting a wisp of smoke, evokes the audience’s silent presence in the room. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.


Exhibitions:

1969, Rome, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Fabio Mauri 1959-1969, opening 1 July, curated by Cesare Vivaldi.

2019, London, Fair – Hauser & Wirth,
Frieze Masters, 3–6 October.


Bibliography:

Fabio Mauri, exhibition catalogue, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Rome, edited by Cesare Vivaldi (Rome: Studio d’Arte Toninelli, 1969), p. 100 (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. 74 (ill.).


Smoking, 1969