Fondazione Marconi and Gió Marconi are pleased to announce Mario Schifano TUTTO nelle carte... [TUTTO on Paper…], a major retrospective curated by Alberto Salvadori, with the support of the Archivio Mario Schifano.
The exhibition aims to shed light on Mario Schifano’s extensive and varied production of works on paper from the 1960s. It features a selection of works on paper that retraces the best-known cycles that the artist was concurrently also creating on canvas, beginning with the Monocromi and ending with the Compagni compagni series.

Mario Schifano’s work and personal journey were intense and never separate. His works on paper represent an important and extensive production. The selection on display at the gallery demonstrates that throughout the decade of the 1960s, for Mario Schifano art was everything, TUTTO: art that evolves and revolves around the subject, reality, and a new mindful consciousness in relation to the city, human space, life and emotions. In the same manner as his paintings, Schifano's works on paper provide vivid evidence of how everything influenced his way of seeing and thinking: films, signage, advertising, politics, his personal love stories and friendships. Schifano instinctively understood that art is life and vice versa. Right from the start he differentiated himself from the American phenomena of pop art and new dada, and from everyone else for the rest of his career. His artworks on paper are the geographical map of his way of thinking and his practice.