Mario Schifano *
(Homs/Libya 1934–1998 Rome)
Astratto Concreto, 1965, signed, enamel and collage on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, framed
This work is registered in the Archivio Mario Schifano, Rome and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity

Provenance:
Galleria La Salita, Rome (label on the reverse)
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Parma, Scuderie della Pilotta Mario Schifano, Ed. La Nazionale, Parma 1974, no. 150 with ill.

“Schifano’s conflicted relationship with America between 1960 and 1965 was crucial to distinctive features of his art. By 1965 he had reached a turning point.
Torn between an enthusiastic embrace of technological and social progress and an awareness and wariness of the dark side of Western culture, Schifano went on to explore such polarities in the following years.
He was constantly suspended between envisioning the future and revisiting the past, reassessing the tenets of painting and blurring the boundaries between different media. The extraordinarily inventive, intense, and often meandering path Schifano forged
in his early years informed the entire trajectory of his career and life and ultimately
made him one of the most compelling and significant figures in the international
postwar and contemporary art scene”.
Francesco Guzzetti-From Rome to New York and back again