Sprovieri presents Mario Schifano 1960s, organised in collaboration with Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy. The exhibition brings together a selection of fourteen works by Mario Schifano dating from 1960 to 1967.
“It all happened in that decade. There is a “before the 1960s” and an “after the 1960s”. Mario Schifano (1934–1998) lived through them in the full force of his powers and at the height of his expressive strength, and he “saw everything”. His production from those years demonstrates this clearly, perfectly encapsulated in this selection of fourteen works, some of them genuine masterpieces that have featured in the artist’s most important retrospective exhibitions. Schifano’s work is usually included within the somewhat nebulous category of Italian Pop Art, but such a definition risks being reductive when confronted with the potential of so singular an artist, one who was selected by Ileana Sonnabend for her Paris gallery in 1962.