Schermo Fine
1960
Paint on paper
70 x 100 cm (27 9/16 x 39 3/8 in.)
As a stop on the image, the black screen of Schermo Fine strikes us with a laconic “Fine” (The End). This familiar message, marking the end of films until the end of the 1960s, is here promoted to the rank of critical work of art: taken out of its context, it becomes a brutal, disenchanted phrase, the pictorial symbol of a deep questioning of the significance of television and cinema.
The author of this striking work is one of the most prominent artists of the Italian avant-garde of the 1960s, Fabio Mauri. Particularly fascinated by cinema, film is one of his fetish expression media while at the same time being itself the object of the artist’s critique. He engages in it through pictorial works representing the various states of a television screen, often just blank.
The painting Schermo Fine by Fabio Mauri was first shown at the 2016 “Accrochage” ("Hanging") exhibition at the Punta della Dogana.
The author of this striking work is one of the most prominent artists of the Italian avant-garde of the 1960s, Fabio Mauri. Particularly fascinated by cinema, film is one of his fetish expression media while at the same time being itself the object of the artist’s critique. He engages in it through pictorial works representing the various states of a television screen, often just blank.
The painting Schermo Fine by Fabio Mauri was first shown at the 2016 “Accrochage” ("Hanging") exhibition at the Punta della Dogana.
Exhibitions
Fabio MAURI © Adagp, Paris.
Courtesy Studio Fabio Mauri.
Photo Giorgio Benni
