INTERNATIONAL & INTELLECTUAL CONFERENCE WITH STUDENTS, EXPERTS & SCHOLARS ABOUT ITALIAN PAINTER MARIO SCHIFANO’S RIVETING IMPACT ON ART HISTORY 

OCTOBER 20TH - OCTOBER 23RD, 2021

New York, NY - In celebration of their current exhibition, “Mario Schifano: Facing America, 1960-65” (curated by Dr. Francesco Guzzetti) the Center For Italian Modern Art will host “Mario Schifano Study Days,” an international conference aimed to investigate the major themes of their exhibition as well as to contribute to the general debate on Mario Schifano. This annual event offers an opportunity for CIMA’s fellows to share their new research alongside other scholars.

The series of events will be held partially virtually and partially in person. The keynote address and the first three sessions of the conference (October 20, 21, 22) will be held online as Zoom seminars. The final day of the conference will be held in person at CIMA (421 Broome St 4th floor, New York, NY 10013) on Saturday, October 23. See all details below. 

VIRTUAL PANELS: 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20TH - FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22ND

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Wednesday, October 20

10-11:30AM EST

Keynote Lecture

Featuring: 

**Thomas Crow (NYU, Institute of Fine Arts), New York Pop Art as an Immigrant Affair

Wednesday, October 20

12-1:30PM EST

Schifano Pop-olare 

Chair: Carlotta Vacchelli

Featuring:

**Ginevra Addis (Università Cattolica, Milano), Mario Schifano’s Cultural War on US Pop Art from 1960 to 1965: from Artworks to Art Critics

**Flavia Frigeri (National Portrait Gallery, London), On and Off Screen: Mario Schifano’s Tele-Visual Painting

**Paola Di Giammaria (Musei Vaticani, Rome), Photography in Mario Schifano’s Painting. Genesis and Narrations

**Giorgia Gastaldon (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy), Not (only) an American Story: Mario Schifano and the Italian Pop Way

Thursday, October 21

12-1:30 PM EST

Schifano’s Long Shadow: Citation and Literary Encounters 

Chair: Virginia Magnaghi

Featuring:

**Matthew Holman (University College, London), Across Endless Oceans: Words & Drawings (1964) and Citational Practice

**Mae Losasso (Royal Holloway, University of London), Definition of Blue: Mario Schifano, John Ashbery and the Shadow of Giorgio de Chirico

**Carlotta Vacchelli (CIMA Fellow), A Transcultural Figure. Portrayals of Mario Schifano from the 1990s to the 2010s

Friday, October 22

12-1:30 PM EST

Framing the Gaze. Schifano’s Artistic Practice in the 1960s 

Chair: Biancalucia Maglione

Featuring:

**Giovanni Lusi (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy), Re-reading Schifano’s Leonardo: between Twombly and Rauschenberg

Virginia Magnaghi (CIMA Fellow), Reportage, Impression, Anemia. Mario Schifano’s Landscapes between Rome and New York (1963-66)

Raffaella Perna (Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy), Revolutionary Utopia: Franco Angeli and Mario Schifano in 1968

IN-PERSON PANELS: 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23RD

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10:30AM-12:00PM EST

Sources Revealed. Schifano between Politics and Art History 

Chair: Aja Martin

Featuring:

**Laura Mattioli (CIMA President), Mario Schifano’s Encounter with Futurism in the 1960s

**Marica Antonucci (CIMA Fellow), Mario Schifano and the Thorns of Realism

**Filippo Bosco (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy), Schifano’s Drawings and their Function from the Sixties to the Seventies: Encounters, Redefinitions, Rediscoveries

**Flavio Fergonzi and Luca Nigro (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy), Mario Schifano’s 1969 Festa cinese: Its Iconography and Sources

1:15-2:30 PM EST

Theoretical Discourses: Frames, Objects, and (Non)Figures 

Chair: Marica Antonucci

Featuring:

**Aja Martin (CIMA Fellow), (Non)Figures within Mario Schifano and Frank O’Hara’s Words and Drawings

**Biancalucia Maglione (CIMA Fellow), Shaping the View. Apertures on Schifano’s Painting through the Photographic “Syntax”

**Alessandro Giammei (Bryn Mawr College, USA), Objects of Use: Mario Schifano & (New) Materialism

ABOUT CIMA:

Founded in 2013, CIMA is a public non-profit dedicated to presenting modern and contemporary Italian art to international audiences. Through critically acclaimed exhibitions—many of them bringing work to U.S. audiences for the first time—along with a wide variety of public programs and substantial support for a new scholarship awarded through its international fellowship program, CIMA situates Italian modern art in an expansive historic and cultural context, illuminating its continuing relevance to contemporary culture and serving as an incubator of curatorial ideas for larger cultural institutions. CIMA works to add new voices to scholarship on modern Italian art with annual fellowships that open fresh perspectives and new avenues of research. A visit begins with complimentary espresso, followed by an informal exhibition tour with one of the resident fellows. Visitors are welcome to linger for additional viewing and conversation.

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