In Naples, Gallerie d'Italia dedicates exhibition to Mario Schifano, featuring more than fifty works

From June 2 to October 29, 2023, the Naples branch of the Gallerie d’Italia will host the exhibition Mario Schifano: the New Imaginary. 1960-1990, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, dedicated to one of the most important Italian artists of the 20th century.

More than fifty works from Mario Schifano’s production from the 1960s to the 1990s will be on display, from the Intesa Sanpaolo Collection, from important cultural institutions such as the Museo del Novecento in Milan and the Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna Ca’ Pesaro in Venice, as well as from national and international art galleries and private collections, and will benefit from the collaboration of theMario Schifano Archive.

The artist kicks off his career in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His research is initially characterized by monochrome, dense painting, with references to his work as a restorer of ancient works in the museum of Etruscan and archaeological art in Villa Giulia, Rome, where his father had directed him. It is from these very rare early monochrome works that the exhibition starts, some from the Luigi and Peppino Agrati Collection, now part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group’s artistic heritage, brought together for the first time on this occasion. The exhibition also deals with the theme of signs, represented in the exhibition by works such as Grande pittura of 1963 and iconic paintings dedicated to Esso, Coca Cola and urban signs that characterize Schifano’s research in the early 1960s.

The exhibition at the Gallerie d’Italia proceeds with some masterpieces dedicated to great Italian landscapes such as Ultimo autunno, a key work from the Intesa Sanpaolo Collection, and then with a small masterpiece such as Futurismo rivisitato, dedicated to masters such as Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini and Carlo Carrà, which introduces the theme of the movement of the human figure.

A series of works from the 1970s called TV Landscapes will be exhibited to the public for the first time: creations that, revising painting through the use of the camera and the emulsion of color on canvas, repurpose news events, art and advertising.

On the ground floor, the Toledo Salon will host large-scale works significant from the last three decades of Schifano’s artistic production: the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. These works illustrate the artist’s creative happiness even in his mature phase, expressed in the form of what critics call the extraordinary canvases of international contemporary art.

The exhibition has the patronage of the City of Naples.

For info: https://gallerieditalia.com/

Image: Mario Schifano, Il vento era il fiato che usciva dagli alberi, composto e salubre (1965; oil, pencil and colored Plexiglas on canvas, 100 x 200 cm; Intesa Sanpaolo Collection). Photo by Paolo Vandrasch, Milan © MARIO SCHIFANO, by SIAE 2023

In Naples, Gallerie d'Italia dedicates exhibition to Mario Schifano, featuring more than fifty works

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