MATERIALS: Gauze on protruding frame, oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 100 × 70 × 4.3 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled and dated on the verso, middle: ‘“white rouge screen” / 1963’
PROVENANCE: The artist; Galleria La Salita, Rome ; Studio Gariboldi, Milan
COLLECTION: Private collection
CATALOGUE: S_1963_87
Schermo (Screen) on canvas characterised by a projecting top painted in an abstract geometric pattern, veiled by a semi-transparent canvas stretched across the work’s entire surface. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1983, Rome, Galleria La Salita, Ultime Avanguardie (1957-1971), opening 23 November, curated by Simonetta Lux.
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, Vicenza, LAMeC – Laboratorio per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Monocromo bianco, 30 October – 7 December, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero.
2007-2008, Caraglio (Cuneo), Il Filatoio, Il velo, 28 October 2007 – 24 February 2008, curated by Andrea Busto.
2016, Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Imagine, 23 April – 19 September, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero.
Monocromo Bianco, exhibition catalogue, LAMeC – Laboratorio per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Vicenza, edited by Luca Massimo Barbero (Vicenza: Comune di Vicenza, 1997), p. 81 (ill.).
Il Velo: tra mistero, seduzione, misticismo, sensualità, potere e religione, exhibition catalogue, Il Filatoio, Caraglio (Cuneo), edited by Andrea Busto (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2007), p. 224 (ill.).
Imagine. Nuove immagini nell’arte italiana 1960-1969, exhibition catalogue, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, edited by Luca Massimo Barbero (Venice: Marsilio, 2016), p. 44 (ill.).
