MATERIALS: Paper, pencil, transfer letters and canvas on wood
DIMENSIONS: 95.5 × 57.5 cm
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Private collection, Rome
CATALOGUE: S_1971_801
Picture composed of a ‘first-generation’ paper Schermo (Screen) detached from its original frame (still retaining its shape), glued to a teal-coloured canvas base, mounted in turn onto a black cardboard background. A dark indigo piece of paper wraps around the bottom of the panel, leaving the centre of the screen visible with the words ‘EINSTEIN’ and ‘FINE’ (THE END) written in transfer letters over a graphite erasure. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
2012, Milan, Palazzo Reale, Fabio Mauri – The End, 19 June – 23 September, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti.
2015, Venice, Giardini di Castello, Central Pavilion, 56. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – All the World’s Futures, 9 May – 22 November, curated by Okwui Enwezor.
2016-2017, Bergamo, GAMeC, Fabio Mauri: Arte per legittima difesa, 7 October 2016 – 15 January 2017, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
Fabio Mauri. The End, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Reale, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Skira, 2012), p. 161 (ill.).
56. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte: All the World’s Futures: Mostra, exhibition catalogue, La Biennale, Venice, edited by Okwui Enzewor (Venice: Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia / Marsilio, 2015), p. 615.
Fabio Mauri. Arte per legittima difesa, exhibition catalogue, GAMeC, Bergamo, edited by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio (Bergamo: GAMeC Books, 2016), p. 112 (ill.).
