Center For Italian Modern Art Announces New Series of Underground Film Screenings in Partnership with Elizabeth Street Garden
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The Series “Beyond The Canvas: Schifano and Cinema” Celebrates CIMA’s Current Exhibition of Italian Painter & Pop Artist Mario Schifano
First Event Features Poet, Photographer, Director, & One of “Andy Warhol’s Superstars” Gerard Malanga
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NEW YORK —Today, The Center For Italian Modern Art (CIMA) announces a new series of short underground film screenings in partnership with Elizabeth Street Garden, tied to its current exhibition “Facing America: Mario Schifano: 1960-65,” on view at CIMA until November 13th.
More on “excellent” exhibition via New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/arts/design/mario-schifano-review.html
These in-person events are dedicated to the poetry and underground cinema of Italian artist Mario Schifano. Join the Center for Italian Art for a video art journey in the international counterculture of the ‘60s. More details on each event below.
Details below:
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Wednesday, June 23rd | 6pm ET | Center For Italian Modern Art
Schifano and Friends: Gerard Malanga
**CIMA will present a book signing, poetry reading and film screening with life-long poet, prolific photographer, filmmaker, archivist and Andy Warhol's assistant for seven years in the 1960s, Gerard Malanga.
Please note that extra cleaning and air sanitization are still in place at CIMA. Mask wearing remains encouraged and mandatory for non-vaccinated attendees.
**At 6pm ET, Malanga will read excerpts and sign copies of his latest poetry book The New Mélancholia (Bottle of Smoke Press, 2021) at the Center For Italian Modern Art (421 Broome St 4th floor, New York, NY 10013). To celebrate their first in-person event since March 13, 2020, CIMA will offer a drink to attendees.
**Then, attendees will head to the Elizabeth Street Garden (Elizabeth St, New York, NY 10012) to watch a screening of Malanga’s film, In Search of the Miraculous (screening begins at 8pm ET). The movie was created during Malanga’s 1967 trip to Italy, where he took part in the happenings orchestrated by Mario Schifano at the renowned Piper Club.
Wednesday, July 28th | 8 pm ET | Elizabeth Street Garden
Screening of Mario Schifano’s Short Film Round Trip (1964, 22’)
**CIMA will present a screening of Mario Schifano’s Short Film Round Trip at Elizabeth Street Garden (Elizabeth St, New York, NY 10012). There will be a brief introduction by CIMA Research fellow Marica Antonucci.
**Schifano maintained a connection to Anglo-American counterculture and emerging trends, ranging from 1960s rock and progressive music to experimental cinema. These manifested in his relationship and collaborations with the Rolling Stones, as well as the film he made, Round Trip, a rare short movie shot in New York in 1964. The film is on view at CIMA, its first screening in the US, and represents an early example of Schifano’s interest in experimental time-based media.
**Marica Antonucci is a Ph.D. candidate in the history of art at Johns Hopkins University, where she specializes in twentieth-century art. Her dissertation analyzes the intersections of artistic creation, political commitment, and conceptions of community during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s in Italy.
Wednesday, August 18th | 8 pm ET | Elizabeth Street Garden
Screening of Mario Schifano’s Short Films Reflex and Souvenir
**CIMA will present screenings of Mario Schifano’s short films Reflex and Souvenir at the Elizabeth Street Garden (Elizabeth St, New York, NY 10012). There will be a brief introduction by a CIMA Research fellow.
** Souvenir (1964, ‘11) follows Peter Hartman and Gerard Malanga as they visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, mingling with many tourists. Their bodies and their curious performative actions form a counterpoint to the new religion of mass tourism, which Schifano captures in its most common, pop details.
**Reflex (1964, ‘8) is a short film, shot in 1964 in New York. Instead of looking at the city through Schifano's unusual treatment of the urban landscape, Reflex focuses on a day spent in the studio of famous fashion photographer Bob Richardson.
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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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ABOUT GERARD MALANGA:
An emblematic protagonist of the underground New York scene ’60s-‘70s, Gerard Malanga is a multifaceted and prolific creator whose work intersects multiple genres and intellectual milieus. A poet, a photographer, a director and actor, he was one of “Andy Warhol’s superstars.” As chief assistant for Warhol’s Factory in the mid-Sixties, he gave an important contribution to the making of Warhol’s famous silk screens and films. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, Yale Review, Harvard Review, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Poetry Foundation, and more. His iconic photographs of figures such as Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, John Recy, Allen Ginsberg and the Beats, have been coveted by publishers and connoisseurs worldwide. Having been introduced to underground cinema by Willard Maas e and Marie Menken, Malanga went on to produce short movies throughout the 60s that were screened in American and international film festivals.
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ABOUT MARICA ANTONUCCI:
Marica Antonucci is a Ph.D. candidate in the history of art at Johns Hopkins University, where she specializes in twentieth-century art. Her dissertation analyzes the intersections of artistic creation, political commitment, and conceptions of community during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s in Italy. From 2018–2020, she was a predoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, working within the “Rome Contemporary” research initiative in the department of Prof. Tristan Weddigen. Previously, she served as the Carlson/Cowart Fellow in the Department of Prints Drawings and Photographs at the Baltimore Museum of Art from 2017–2018. She holds an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from New York University. During her time at CIMA, she will be examining Mario Schifano’s relationship to postwar realist currents, both domestic and international, in order to shed light on overlooked aspects of the artist’s practice. In so doing, her project opens onto broader historiographical issues including the limits of realism itself.
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