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Fabio Mauri, Schermo, 1958-1959

Fabio Mauri

Schermo, 1958-1959
canvas stretched on wooden frame
60 x 43 x 5 cm
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At the end of the 50s, the artist created the first monochromatic works called ‘Schermi’ to allude to television and cinema screens, symbols of the new civilization characterized by media....
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At the end of the 50s, the artist created the first monochromatic works called ‘Schermi’ to allude to television and cinema screens, symbols of the new civilization characterized by media. The series including this work is the first of Mauri’s Schermi, to which belong only very few pieces. The artist’s interest is all on the screen while the image disappears. The monochrome is then both the sum of the continuous flow of images and a glow after all the images have been projected. The sense of the "already happened", often reported in later works of Mauri with the inscription "The End" or "Fine", both in collages and in different Schermi after this first prototype to become a sort of brand or logo of the artist.
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Provenance

The Artist 

VAF- Stiftung, Volker Feierabend, acquired directly from the artist in 2008

Private collection London, acquired in 2017

Exhibitions

Opere e Azioni, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, 1994

'Inaugurazione Congresso della Filosofia e L'universo d'uso', Auditorium, Rome, 2008

La guerra che verrà non è la prima 1914-2014, Mart, Rovereto (4th October 2014 - 20th September 2015)

Italia Pop: L'Arte negli anni del boom, Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Parma, (10th September - 11th December 2016)

Literature

Immagine Materiale: Italia 1950-1965, Silvana Editore, Milano 2009 (illustrated, p. 300)

Fabio Mauri: Ideology and Memory, Bollati Boringheri, Torino 2012 (illustrated, p.31)

Italia Pop: L'Arte negli anni del boom, Silvana Editore, Milano, 2016 (illustrated, p. 88)

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