Arts Summary: Mario Schifano: Germinal at Magazzino Italian Art, March 23 – August 9, 2024

“Magazzino Italian Art is proud to announce the presentation of a newly imagined survey of a decade of breakthrough paintings by the restlessly inventive artist, filmmaker, photographer, and musician Mario Schifano (1934–1998). Organized by Filippo Fossati, Director of Magazzino, in collaboration with the Archivio Mario Schifano and the Archivio Maurizio Calvesi in Rome and titled Germinal, the artist’s own term for paintings of major, generative effect, the exhibition will be on view in Magazzino’s Robert Olnick Pavilion from March 23 through August 9, 2024.”

According to Filippo Fossati, “This exhibition features germinal works from 1960 to 1970, a time of great social, economic, political, and artistic turmoil, in which Schifano was an eager participant. In these years, with his abundant charisma and exuberance, he became one of the most popular artists in Italy and a renowned figure abroad, creating art that he envisioned as being for everyone, and not just for an elite.”