Mario Schifano Landscape TV signed (on the back) enamel...

Mario Schifano Landscape TV signed (on the back) enamel on emulsified canvas and perspex 50 x 69.5 cm Executed in the first half of the 1970s Work registered at the Mario Schifano Archive, Rome, with no. 05614230624, as per authentication on photograph Provenance: Private Collection Mario Schifano (Homs, Libya, 1934 - Rome, 1998) Between the 1960s and 1970s, after a crisis towards painting triggered by the success of the conceptual neo-avant-gardes, he lived in a studio with dozens of televisions always on with the volume off, constantly flooding his visual space with an uninterrupted stream of images, leading him to create depersonalized works, far from the unique Romantic creativity. The technique Schifano used was to isolate the image from a television screen, capturing it by taking a photograph and then emulsifying it on canvas and finally retouching it with enamel, working, as always, with immediacy and speed. Through these experiments he was among the first artists in the world to interact with different media to create a new artistic language, in which man is increasingly immersed in the image. Estimate € 12,000 - 17,000