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'''Mario Schifano''' (20 September 1934, [[Khoms, Libya]] – 26 January 1998, [[Rome]], Italy) was an Italian [[Painting|painter]] and [[collagist]] of the [[Postmodern]] tradition. He also achieved some renown as a [[film-maker]] and [[rock music]]ian. |
'''Mario Schifano''' (20 September 1934, [[Khoms, Libya]] – 26 January 1998, [[Rome]], Italy) was an Italian [[Painting|painter]] and [[collagist]] of the [[Postmodern]] tradition. He also achieved some renown as a [[film-maker]] and [[rock music]]ian. |
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He is considered to be one of the most significant and pre-eminent artists of Italian postmodernism. His work was exhibited in the famous 1962 "New Realists" show at the [[Sidney Janis]] Gallery with other young [[Pop art]] and [[Nouveau réalisme]] innovators, including [[Andy Warhol]] and [[Roy Lichtenstein]]. He became part of the core group of artists comprising the "Scuola di Piazza del Popolo" alongside [[Franco Angeli]] and Tano Festa. Renowned as a prolific and exuberant artist, he nonetheless struggled with a lifelong drug habit that earned him the label ''maledetto'' "cursed".<ref name=artnet>[http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/scobie/scobie3-23-06.asp "A La Schifano"] by Ilka Scobie, published on Artnet.com, February 2006, retrieved 11 September 2008</ref> |
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Schifano had a relationship with [[Anita Pallenberg]] in 1963, and with [[Marianne Faithfull]] in 1969.<ref>{{cite book|last=Faithfull|first=Marianne|title=Faithfull|publisher=Penguin|year=1995|ISBN=0-14-024653-3|pages=271–274}}</ref> |
Schifano had a relationship with [[Anita Pallenberg]] in 1963, and with [[Marianne Faithfull]] in 1969.<ref>{{cite book|last=Faithfull|first=Marianne|title=Faithfull|publisher=Penguin|year=1995|ISBN=0-14-024653-3|pages=271–274}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 22:07, 15 October 2023
Mario Schifano (20 September 1934, Khoms, Libya – 26 January 1998, Rome, Italy) was an Italian painter and collagist of the Postmodern tradition. He also achieved some renown as a film-maker and rock musician.
Schifano had a relationship with Anita Pallenberg in 1963, and with Marianne Faithfull in 1969.[1]
Work
Schifano produced mixed media work that included enamel paint, wax crayons, gouache, collage, photographs, among other materials. frequently combining them in a single work. Numerous works were painted in enamel on paper that were later mounted on canvas panels.[2]
In 2023, the exhibition, Mario Schifano: The Rise of the ’60s was presented by the Magazzino Italian Art museum in Cold Spring, New York. The exhibit included 80 works by Schifano that were produced between 1960 and the 1970s. Previously, Schifano and the poet Frank O'Hara collaborated on the exhibition of Words & Drawings.[2]
Art market
At a Sotheby's auction in 2022, Schifano's Modern time on enamel on canvas was sold for 2.302 million €.[3]
Partial filmography
- 1964 - Round Trip (16 mm, B&W)
- 1964 - Reflex (16 mm, B&W, 8')
- 1966/1967 - Pittore a Milano (16 mm, B&W)
- 1967 - Serata (16 mm, C)
- 1967 - Anna Carini in agosto vista dalle farfalle (16 mm, C)
- 1967 - Vietnam (16 mm, B&W, mute, 3')
- 1967 - Made in USA (16 mm, B&W, mute)
- 1967 - Silenzio (16 mm, B&W, mute)
- 1967 - Jean-Luc Cinema Godard (16 mm, B&W)
- 1967 - Ferreri (16 mm, B&W, mute, 6')
- 1967 - Carol+Bill (16 mm, B&W, 31 min)
- 1967 - Souvenir (16 mm, B&W, 11')
- 1967 - Film (16 mm, B&W, 15')
- 1967 - Anna (16 mm, B&W, mute, 12')
- 1967 - Fotografo (16 mm, B&W, mute, 3')
- 1967 - Schifano (16 mm, B&W, mute, 1')
- 1967 - Voce della foresta di plastica (16 mm)
- 1968 - Satellite (film 1968)|Satellite (35 mm, B&W e C, 82')
- 1969 - Umano non umano (35 mm e 16 mm, C, 95' - (Production: Mount Street Film)
- 1969 - Trapianto, consunzione, morte di Franco Brocani (35 mm e 16 mm, C and B&W, 120')
- 1970 - Paesaggi (Super 8 mm, C)
- 1985 - Sigla per "La Magnifica Ossessione" (Video, C, 2' - Production RAI)
- 1994 - Absolut Vodka (Video, C, 20' - Directed with Roberto Lucca Taroni)
References
- ^ Faithfull, Marianne (1995). Faithfull. Penguin. pp. 271–274. ISBN 0-14-024653-3.
- ^ a b Yau, John. "An Italian Artist Who Took On American Capitalism". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ "Contemporary-Art Prices Keep Rising at Auction". Sotheby's. Retrieved may 26, 2023.
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