INV. No 885
Schermo
1958
PROTRUDING WALL WORKS
ENGLISH TITLE: Screen
MATERIALS: Paper on protruding frame
DIMENSIONS: 62 × 42 × 5 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Signed and dated on the verso, bottom: ‘Fabio Mauri 1958’
PROVENANCE: The artist
COLLECTION: Fabio Mauri Estate, Rome
CATALOGUE: S_1958_885
NOTE:

‘First-generation’ Schermo (Screen) composed of a sheet of white paper stretched over a shaped, projecting wooden frame. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.


Exhibitions:

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.

1997, Venice, Palazzo Querini Dubois,
Minimalia. Da Giacomo Balla a…, 12 June – 12 October, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.

1998, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni,
Minimalia. Da Giacomo Balla a…, 29 January – 6 April, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva (travelling: 1997, Venice).

1999-2000, New York, PS1,
Minimalia: An Italian Vision in 20th Century Art, 10 October 1999 – 9 January 2000, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva (travelling: 1997, Venice).

2007, Milan, Galleria Milano,
Fabio Mauri: Schermi, 3 May – 15 July.

2008, Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica,
Fabio Mauri. L’universo d’uso, 17 April – 15 May, curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi, Francesca Alfano Miglietti.

2012, Milan, Palazzo Reale,
Fabio Mauri – The End, 19 June – 23 September, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti.

2014, Rome, Villa Medici,
Painting or how to get rid of it, 11 June – 14 September, curated by Éric de Chassey.

2016-2017, Naples, Museo Madre,
Retrospettiva a luce solida, 26 November 2016 – 6 March 2017, curated by Laura Cherubini, Andrea Viliani.


Bibliography:

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), pp. 78–83 (ill.).

Fabio Mauri,
Io sono un ariano (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2009), p. 39 (ill.).

Laura Cherubini, “Schermi”, in
Fabio Mauri. Ideology and Memory, edited by Studio Fabio Mauri (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2012), pp. 25–26, 31 (ill.).

Fabio Mauri. The End, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Reale, Milan, edited by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Milan: Skira, 2012), p. 138 (ill.).

La peinture ou comment s’en débarrasser, exhibition catalogue, Villa Medici, Rome, edited by Éric de Chassey (Rome: Drago, 2014), pp. 10, 12 (ill.).

Mauri, edited by Flaminio Gualdoni (Milan: Corriere della Sera, 2022), p. 16 (ill.).


Schermo, 1958