Mario Schifano *
(Homs/Libya 1934–1998 Rome)
Innocente + Immaginazione, 1988, signed and titled; inscribed on the reverse, acrylic and enamel on canvas, 200 x 300 cm
This work is registered in the Archivio Mario Schifano, Rome and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity.
Provenance:
European Private Collection
Exhibited:
Rome, Mario Schifano. Associazione Culturale Monti, February-March 1988, exh. cat. pp. 11/12
Tokyo, Mario Schifano, Yurakucho Art Forum, 1994, exh. cat. with ill. (titled “Fotografia 1942”)
Reggio Emilia, Mario Schifano. Io sono infantile, Palazzo Magnani, 21 April-21 May 2000, p. 40 with ill. (titled “Fotografia 1992”)
Literature:
Studio metodologico riguardante la catalogazione informatica dei dati relativi alle opere di Mario Schifano presenti presso la Fondazione M. S. Multistudio, vol. II A, Opere su tela 1983–1990/97, p. 262, no. 88/499 with ill.
Note:
The work plausibly constitutes a Pop reinterpretation of historical archival photographs of the attack on Pearl Harbor, recontextualizing the original iconography in a contemporary visual idiom.
Specialist: Alessandro Rizzi
(Homs/Libya 1934–1998 Rome)
Innocente + Immaginazione, 1988, signed and titled; inscribed on the reverse, acrylic and enamel on canvas, 200 x 300 cm
This work is registered in the Archivio Mario Schifano, Rome and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity.
Provenance:
European Private Collection
Exhibited:
Rome, Mario Schifano. Associazione Culturale Monti, February-March 1988, exh. cat. pp. 11/12
Tokyo, Mario Schifano, Yurakucho Art Forum, 1994, exh. cat. with ill. (titled “Fotografia 1942”)
Reggio Emilia, Mario Schifano. Io sono infantile, Palazzo Magnani, 21 April-21 May 2000, p. 40 with ill. (titled “Fotografia 1992”)
Literature:
Studio metodologico riguardante la catalogazione informatica dei dati relativi alle opere di Mario Schifano presenti presso la Fondazione M. S. Multistudio, vol. II A, Opere su tela 1983–1990/97, p. 262, no. 88/499 with ill.
Note:
The work plausibly constitutes a Pop reinterpretation of historical archival photographs of the attack on Pearl Harbor, recontextualizing the original iconography in a contemporary visual idiom.
Specialist: Alessandro Rizzi
