Mario Schifano

Galleria Odyssia, New York
Collezione Bruno Gambone, New York-Firenze
Ivi acquistato dall'attuale proprietario

This work is in very good overall condition.There is pale blooming towards the lower part of the paper. The bearing is slightly wavy by the upper right corner. Colours are more saturated compared to the catalogue illustration.
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(...) Natura e geometria. Dopo la mostra all'Odyssia, Schifano ha attraversato un periodo di ricerca, accumulando tutto quanto ha scoperto negli ultimi anni: ed è l'opposto della "messa a fuoco" iniziale. Avido di cose, ma ancor più avido di fissarle; vuole dire tutto, aggredito dalla paura di non fare a tempo. (...) Dopo il ritorno dagli USA, Schifano ha dipinto molto, con tono rinnovato. Ritrova la tecnica del passato (lo smalto brillante), ritrova la figurazione del passato (il paesaggio e la geometria); ma lo smalto è meno succoso, il paesaggio, come dicono i titoli, è un paesaggio "anemico". Il grigio-argento e l'azzurro-myosotis svuotano il significato delle grandi nuvole, delle grandi colline. Niente cielo, niente tramonto, niente panorama; o meglio, il fantasma del panorama, del tramonto, del cielo. (...)

 Nature and geometry. After the exhibition at the Odyssia Gallery, Schifano went through a period of research, accumulating all the discoveries made in the recent years: he realized the opposite of the initial "focus". Greedy of things, but even more avid to fix them; he wants to say everything, afraid of having not enough time. (...) After returning from the USA, Schifano has painted a lot, with renewed tone. He recovered the technique of the past (the brilliant enamel), he recovered the figuration of the past (the landscape and geometry); but the pigment is less thick, the landscape, as the titles say, is an "anemic" landscape. The silver-gray and blue-myosotis deprive the meaning of the large clouds and hills. No sky, no sunset, no landscape; or rather, the ghost of landscape, sunset, sky. (…)

Maurizio Fagiolo Dell'Arco, da Leader, anno III, nn. 17-18, Milano 1965