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Palazzo Esposizioni presents a major exhibition dedicated to Mario Schifano, a key figure of Italian postwar art and a leading protagonist of a cultural season in which Rome became a laboratory for images, languages and experimentation. A restless and radical painter, Schifano moved through decades of visual history with an unwavering focus on the present, turning painting into a medium capable of absorbing photography, cinema, television and the signs of contemporary life. The exhibition brings together more than one hundred works from major international collections and explores the core of his artistic research: an absolute passion for painting, understood not as a fixed style but as a field of constant renewal. From early experimental works to the famous monochromes, from media-derived imagery to television landscapes, and finally to the later works marked by strong social engagement, the exhibition conveys the energy of an artist constantly in dialogue with his time. The show unfolds across the ground-floor galleries of Palazzo Esposizioni following a chronological path, with rooms dedicated to the different phases and series that defined Schifano’s career. Alongside the paintings, a central role is given to cinema, a fundamental aspect of his practice: throughout the exhibition, a program of film screenings in the museum’s cinema space offers visitors a deeper insight into this lesser-known but essential part of his work. The result is a portrait of a free and tireless artist who reinvented painting as a site of collision between images, memory and reality - an exhibition that invites audiences to rediscover Schifano not only as an icon, but as a crucial figure in understanding contemporary art.