INV. No 890
Una tasca di cinema
1972
PROTRUDING WALL WORKS
ENGLISH TITLE: Cinema Pocket
MATERIALS: Tempera on padded protruding canvas, wooden frame
DIMENSIONS: 132 × 80 × 6 cm
INSCRIPTIONS: Titled, dated and signed on the verso, upper right: ‘Schermo imbottito / medio / (II generazione) / “Una tasca di cinema” / 1972 / Fabio Mauri
PROVENANCE: The artist; Nai Gallery, Napoli; collezione privata; Auction House Christie’s (Milan, May 2011); Galleria Bonioni Arte, Reggio Emilia; private collection, Reggio Emilia; Auction House Sotheby’s (Londra, October 2016)
COLLECTION: Private collection, Rome
CATALOGUE: S_1972_890
NOTE:

‘Second-generation’ Schermo (Screen) composed of white-painted canvas stretched over a shaped, projecting wooden frame. Unlike the other screens, the overhanging part of the work contains padding within; the lower part of the canvas is folded to form a flap to which the artist referred as a tasca di cinema. The screen is surrounded by a wooden box frame painted black. For greater insight into the concept of ‘schermo’ in Mauri’s work, see the introductory essays.


Exhibitions:

2001, San Benedetto del Tronto, Centro per le arti contemporanee “Bice Piacentini”, ABO: le arti e la critica, 1–27 May, curated by Angelo Capasso.


Bibliography:

A.B.O. Le arti e la critica, exhibition catalogue, Centro per le arti contemporanee "Bice Piacentini", San Benedetto del Tronto, edited by Angelo Capasso (Milan: Skira, 2001), p. VIII (ill.).


Una tasca di cinema, 1972