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MARIO SCHIFANO
In Onda TV
27 NOVEMBER 2019 - 25 JANUARY 2020
Opening: Wednesday 27 November at 6 pm

Studio Guastalla Arte Moderna e Contemporanea presents Mario Schifano. In Onda TV [Mario Schifano. On TV], an exhibition of around fifteen “TV landscapes”, enamel on primed canvases on which the artist fixes a television image, emulsifies it onto the canvas and transforms it via painting. The plexiglass lends the work a shiny, reflective dimension that is a reference to the TV screen.
On the cusp of the 60s and 70s, Schifano lived in a studio where dozens of televisions, permanently switched on …