{"product_id":"mario-schifano-senza-titolo-first-half-of-the-1970s","title":"Mario Schifano — Senza Titolo, First Half of the 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003eMario Schifano (Homs, 1934 – Rome, 1998) is one of the central figures of Italian art in the second half of the twentieth century and a founding voice of the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo, the Rome circle that also included Franco Angeli and Tano Festa. His language is instantly recognisable: saturated colour, fragmented imagery, advertising symbols and a constant exchange between painting, photography, television and cinema. Frequently associated with international Pop Art, his work in fact retains a strong autonomy, driven by a gestural, instinctive and continuously transforming approach to the painted surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis \u003cem\u003eSenza Titolo\u003c\/em\u003e, executed in the first half of the 1970s, belongs to a particularly significant phase of that research, the years in which Schifano extended the boundaries of painting through contamination with photography, screenprinting and images drawn from mass media. The use of screenprint on canvas documents his growing interest in the processes of image reproduction: the artist starts from a potentially serial procedure and carries it into a wholly personal practice, and in this case the unique nature of the work distinguishes it from a properly multiple production and underlines its individuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe presence of Perspex adds a further layer. The transparent surface introduces a physical separation between image and viewer, generating reflections and perceptual shifts that change with the light and the viewing position: the work is experienced not only as a painted surface but as a more complex visual object in which image, support and space enter into relation. The almost perfectly square format of 97 × 97 cm reinforces the visual autonomy of the composition, concentrating the gaze within a defined space and giving the work a balanced yet incisive presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin Schifano's market, the historic works of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s are the segment collectors follow most closely, as the core of his evolution. A unique example from those years, with a technique as articulate as screenprint on canvas and Perspex, sits apart from the editioned serigraphs and requires the reading that provenance and archival documentation make possible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Collecto Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58063961948500,"sku":"4491","price":18700.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/9083\/7588\/files\/file-1790345205988-WhatsApp_Image_2026-09-25_at_14.03.32.jpg?v=1793447772","url":"https:\/\/collectoarchive.com\/products\/mario-schifano-senza-titolo-first-half-of-the-1970s","provider":"Collecto Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}