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Default
Year
1995
Medium
Prints , Design
Reference
6d8063a6
Lost innocences: screen printing by the famous representative of the Italian Pop-Art Mario Schifano. The screen-printing represents the antithesis between ancient and modern. Two dinosaurs observe eachother representing the prehistoric era, before the human kind took the windward. Together with them there are two wonderful architectures, characterized by a Renaissance style, representing the infinite progress of the human kind. In Schifano's opinion, however, this progress has brought with itself a general loss of the original innocence on the one hand of men, and on the other of the world before men. The work is signed by the artist on the right bottom and numbered 69/169 lower left.
1934 Homs, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Mario Schifano was an Italian painter (1934–1998), best known for his Postmodern collages, combining advertising imagery, wrapping paper, and painted elements. Born in Homs, Libya, he was a painter, collagist, filmmaker, and musician, who moved to Rome following the World War II. In the early 1950s, he began painting in the Art Informel style, using thick impasto. Later, between 1959 and 1961, Schifano produced a series of paintings on wrapping paper glued to canvas using only one or two colors, producing works which were similar to French Nouveau Réalisme. The following year, in 1962, he began to use themes from advertising. That same year, he was featured in an exhibition New York, where he came into direct contact with American Pop artists, and was particularly influenced by the work of Jim Dine and Franz Kline.
In the second half of the 1960s, Schifano became interested in cinema, television, and performance. He founded the band Le Stelle with guitarist Urbano Orlandi, and designed a booklet for their album, Le ultime parole di Brandimonte. In 1968, Schifano made the film Satellite. Also during this time, Schifano began making screenprints, many of which borrowed imagery from his earlier works.
A set of eight screenprints, was published in Rome for the 1984 Venice Biennale. Beginning in the late 1980s, he often worked with the publisher Torcular of Trezzano del Naviglio, who issued a series of catalogues of his work.
His work often referred to popular culture or art history, featuring well-known brand logos or kitsch recurring motifs in the vein of Pop Art, including lily pads and horses.
The artist died in Rome in 1998.
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