Mario Schifano - The Turtle

Artist: Mario Schifano

Year: 1997

Medium: Enamel serigraph

Size: 70x50cm

Edition: XCIII/C

Signature: Hand-signed by the Artist

Certificate of authenticity: Certificate of guarantee issued by our gallery and certificate of authenticity issued by the publisher

Literature: Catalogo Torcular, Serigrafie Mario Schifano 1996-1997, IV Vol.

Condition: Excellent

Frame: No

Description:

This material silkscreen by Mario Schifano is a work that expresses great energy and dynamism through his gestural painting technique.

In fact, the work presents a strong chromatic contrast between the intense and vibrant blue of the background and the yellow-black of the central figure, which represents a turtle. The sky is rendered with broad and swirling brush strokes, almost turbulent, creating a strong contrast with the heaviness of the turtle below.

The turtle is represented with bold and thick pictorial signs, with black outlines that delineate its shape and ochre and green strokes that suggest its carapace. The graphic rendering is deliberately expressionist and primitive, in line with Schifano's typical material and gestural style.

Return to nature
Schifano, throughout his career, has often investigated the relationship between nature and contemporaneity. The turtle could be a metaphor for nature that resists the passage of time and the transformations imposed by man.

This work, with its gestural and material style, therefore conveys a strong sense of balance between chaos and stability, between energy and resistance, embodied in the figure of the turtle.