Mario Schifano (20 September 1934,

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– 26 January 1998,

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, Italy) was an Italian painter and collagist of the Postmodern tradition. He also achieved some renown as a

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and

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ian. 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

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Gallery with other young Pop art and

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innovators, including

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and Roy Lichtenstein. He became part of the core group of artists comprising the "Scuola di Piazza del Popolo" alongside

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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"."A La Schifano"
by Ilka Scobie, published on Artnet.com, February 2006, retrieved 11 September 2008 Schifano had a relationship with

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in 1963, and with

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in 1969. He had a connection to

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beyond his relationships with Pallenberg and Faithfull.

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and

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gave cameo performances in a film he directed, ''Umano, non umano'' (1969), and he was the inspiration for the Rolling Stones song "

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" on their 1969 album ''

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''.

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

External links

Biography of the artist Mario Schifano
at pontiart.com
Evaluations parameters for Mario Schifano's artworks
, at acquistoarte.it {{DEFAULTSORT:Schifano, Mario 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian contemporary artists Contemporary painters Postmodern artists Libyan people of Italian descent Libyan emigrants to Italy 1998 deaths 1934 births 20th-century Italian male artists