{"product_id":"mario-schifano-acerbo","title":"Mario Schifano - Acerbo","description":"\u003cp\u003e The \"Still Life\" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consisted of the depiction of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to experiment with a naturalistic or photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art the \"Still Life\" also became a way of interpreting reality. Indeed, as happened, for example, in the Cubist avant-garde or in Giorgio Morandi, the in-depth exploration of objects was aimed at a conceptual representation, taken beyond the simple sensory element. In this silkscreen, Mario Schifano takes the still life subject to its extremes, which, consistent with his research, becomes a powerful gestural expression and arises from a profound reflection on the relationship between art, mass imagery, and technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe work was executed in an expressionist and abstract manner. The still life is interpreted in an extremely synthetic manner, with an almost brutal exercise in reduction. The surface is completely two-dimensional, with no allowance for spatial depth. The brushstrokes delineate the forms in a very tormented and nervous manner. Color is used according to an emotional and spiritual interpretation, without any connection to reality. The work is therefore highly indicative of the artist's conception of the reproduction of reality. For Mario Schifano, the two-dimensionality of the painted surface is comparable to that of a television screen, a computer monitor. For this reason, his pictorial approach, linked to the gesturality of American Abstract Expressionism, can also be interpreted as interference, an electrical disturbance in a vision of the world filtered through technology. Furthermore, there is another relevant theme, more closely linked to a Pop aesthetic. The images Schifano takes are always banal, stereotypical, like kitsch postcards (like the still life, an overused genre in the history of art). But the artist's pictorialism acts on the massified image, giving a new meaning and a new poetics to what is ordinary and mediocre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eMario Schifano was a Roman artist born in 1934 in Homs, Libya. He was the leading exponent of the Piazza del Popolo School. This group of painters met at the Caffè Rosati and shared an artistic language inspired by Pop Art, but with a new sensibility also influenced by the experiments of American Abstract Expressionism. The use of symbols of consumer society, repeated serially, is distinctly Pop, but their pictorial interpretation, whether dirty or textured, or using gestural techniques like dripping, offers a new vision and a different reconfiguration. Mario Schifano passed away in Rome in 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catania Andrea abbassata da 1000 a 600€","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56217995542914,"sku":"ACAT001","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/PHOTO-2021-09-01-11-27-01.jpg?v=1768470060","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/mario-schifano-acerbo","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}