Mario Schifano
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.
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".[1]
Schifano had a relationship with Anita Pallenberg in 1963, and with Marianne Faithfull in 1969.[2]
The paintings which they depict the Palms are Schifano's most identifying and precious representations.
He had a connection to The Rolling Stones beyond his relationships with Pallenberg and Faithfull. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger gave cameo performances in a film he directed, Umano, non umano (1969), and he was the inspiration for the Rolling Stones song "Monkey Man" song that is dedicated to Mario Schifano, on their 1969 album Let It Bleed.
The influence of Pop art can be seen in all of Mario Schifano's artistic production, fascinated by new technologies, advertising, music, photography and experimentation. In particular, the works closest to the artist's pop art are those from the 1980s, when he created the Le Propaganda series, dedicated to the reproduction of advertising brands. The paintings of the exotic Palm trees become one of his most iconic representations.
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
- ^ "A La Schifano" by Ilka Scobie, published on Artnet.com, February 2006, retrieved 11 September 2008
- ^ Faithfull, Marianne (1995). Faithfull. Penguin. pp. 271–274. ISBN 0-14-024653-3.
- ^ "Contemporary-Art Prices Keep Rising at Auction". Sotheby's. Retrieved may 26, 2023.
External links
- Biography of the artist Mario Schifano, at pontiart.com
- Evaluations parameters for Mario Schifano's artworks , at acquistoarte.it
- (IT) Exhibitions and Sales Market, at artemodernaitaliana.com
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