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Among Mario Schifano's many projects, there was also a film, based on a story by Michelangelo Antonioni, titled precisely: "The Night Traveler." The film was never realized, but it marked a turning point, a transition, through cinema. From pure painting to emulsified canvases and photography. It was the late 1960s, and painting seemed to have reached a dead end. At this point Schifano had a new tool, the camera, and especially the television, many televisions, which remained turned on in the dark, sending images uninterruptedly. A continuous stream, like shots: news, nudes, …