Mario Schifano - Red Sea

The painting I depict here, divided into three canvases, presents itself as a representation of purple waves. This narrative, created through the three juxtaposed canvases, speaks to us with a very rapid and energetic style. This homage to Maestro Schifano is part of an experimentation with painting and its materiality. Throughout his career, the artist has recognized new technologies and advertising as the new means of communication par excellence, and also those most likely to be experimental. Fascinated by painting, music, photography, video, and so on, his art tends to manipulate all these new forms to create an interdisciplinary journey that will influence his work. Stylistically, the artist's hand, through the gestures of abstract art, brings painting back to a material and rapid state, creating new forms and a thick pictorial surface. In this case, the subject is created with a sinuous movement that is enhanced by the color contrast of the purple wave and the light blue background. Inspired by other works, one might think the reference is indeed to the waters of the Red Sea, but also to the volcano that overlooks the city of Naples. The brushstrokes are rapid, and the material painting also conveys the concept of the two-dimensionality of the pictorial surface. A multifaceted artist, Mario Schifano was born in 1934 in Homs, Libya. His artistic career began with an apprenticeship at the Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, as an archaeologist and restorer. It was at this time that he began to develop an interest in the art world, which led him to his first exhibition in 1960 at the Galleria La Salita in Rome: Five Roman Painters: Angeli, Festa, Lo Savio, Schifano, and Uncini. Along with other artists such as Franco Angeli and Tano Festa, he was a leading figure in the School of Piazza del Popolo, an artistic movement that developed in Rome in the 1960s. The group of painters regularly met at Caffè Rosati, united by an artistic language that drew on the most important movements of the time, such as Pop Art, but also incorporated important lessons learned from Futurism and American Abstract Expressionism. The use of symbols from consumer society, repeated serially, is distinctly Pop, but their pictorial interpretation, whether dirty or textured, or through gestural techniques like dripping, offers a new vision and a different reconfiguration. His artistic career and his genius still influence the art world today. He died in Rome in 1998.  

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