MATERIALS: Tempera on paper
DIMENSIONS: 99.6 × 153.8 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled, dated and signed on the verso, upper left: ‘“Disegno schermo Fine” / 1963 / Fabio Mauri’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Private collection
CATALOGUE: S_1963_881
A work on paper characterised by a black band painted around the edges of a sheet of paper, framing a Schermo (Screen) with rounded corners with the word ‘FINE’ (THE END) in the centre, a leitmotif in Mauri’s work, indicating a projection has just taken place. An identical but smaller version exists (inv. 152). For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.
1963, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Eight contemporary artists from Rome selected by Galleria Topazia Alliata, 11 September – 20 October.
1969, Rome, Studio d’Arte Toninelli, Fabio Mauri 1959-1969, opening 1 July, curated by Cesare Vivaldi.
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.
Fabio Mauri: Male e bellezza – Das Böse und das Schöne, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle, Klagenfurt, edited by Arnulf Rohsmann (Klagenfurt, 1997), p. 6 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. L’écran mental, exhibition catalogue, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing-Lille, edited by Dominique Païni (Lille, 2003), p. 69 (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. 135 (ill.).
Miriam Mirolla, “Intervista”, in Miriam Mirolla, L’art c’est moi: Quindici interviste sull’arte contemporanea (Rome: Avagliano Editore, 2006), p. 196 (ill.).
Fabio Mauri. Archivio di memoria, edited by Dionigi Mattia Gagliardi (Rome: Numero cromatico editore, 2015), pp. 90–91 (ill.).
