Mario Schifano - Dreamlike

Surrealist aesthetics emerged around the 1920s and encompassed all fields of artistic research. Specifically, in the visual arts, Surrealism sought to explore the human subconscious and translate it into artwork through a mechanical writing process based on dream analysis. Consequently, Surrealist artworks proposed the representation of a dreamlike dimension, completely dissociated from reality.

The work's title itself signals Mario Schifano's desire to enter a surreal, dreamlike dimension. Thus, the artist temporarily abandons the recurring pop themes of his work to instead rework an image drawn from the subconscious. Unlike historical surrealism (the Dalí-Magritte line), Schifano does not employ a hyperrealist language, which would have meant too drastic a departure from his usual style, so closely linked to American Abstract Expressionism. Thus, the representation of the surreal is resolved in an abstract, almost informal manner, approaching, for example, a type of research similar to that of Osvaldo Licini. The highly gestural nature of Schifano's work remains unchanged, as can be seen in his abundant use of dripping.

Mario 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.

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