06/07/2026
“Mario, as distracted as Eva, and I, as patient as Mary, let the NASA staff member tell us about the usual Apollo. On 11 April, in a few days’ time, there will be the launch of the thirteenth, but we won’t be there. Mario doesn’t want to wait, and ever more frequently he repeats there’s no place like home like a child constantly calling for his mother. There’s no more time to lose. We have to take the material gathered, and all the places visited, to Rome: the Pentagon, the Ford, the transplant laboratory, banks, computers, flight simulators, the NASA, the Institute of Technology, atomic workshops, rocket launchers aimed at the moon […] I ask M. what he will do with these portraits he takes of me.”
Excerpt from “There’s no Place like Home”, text by Nancy Ruspoli from the book “America 1970”, part of our Time Travel series
In 1970, Mario Schifano travelled across the United States, then still relishing the conquest of the moon, in order to survey locations for “Human Lab”, a film which he never managed to make. The book is a demonstration that Schifano belongs to a generation of artists who looked to the United States for their primary source of inspiration.
Graphic design by Teresa Piardi – Maxwell Studio (Teresa Piardi)
2019
Italian, English
17 x 21 cm
80 pages
Paperback with French flaps, sewn binding, booklet inside flap
B/w
ISBN 9788899385576
The book is available on our website and in bookshops
This is the last week to visit Mario Schifano’s solo exhibition in Rome at Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Palazzo Esposizioni Roma)
