(Rome 1938–1987)
Teoria di specchi per bagno pubblico Teoria di specchi per un volto, 1962, signed and dated 62 on the reverse, acrylic on wood 103 x 167 cm, framed

Photo certificates:
Archivio delle Opere di Tano Festa, signed by Anita Festa, Rome 7 May 2003, archive no. A10030/360;
Studio Soligo-Archivio Storico Tano Festa, signed by Raffaella Soligo, archive no. RMS62116010010171

Provenance:
Private Collection, Italy (acquired directly from the artist)
G. M. B. Arte, Bassano
European Private Collection

Literature:
G. Marziani, D. Trombadori, Omaggio a Tano Festa, curated by Studio Soligo, Deniarte, Associazione Culturale Tano Friends, Rome, 2017, p. 31, no. 009 with ill.

Tano and Mario were close friends and were always together; they were young, just twenty-years-old at that time. Tano initially wrote poems which he handed out to passers-by on Via del Babuino or Piazza di Spagna. From time to time, the police stopped him, as they regarded him as a dangerous subject. He also made small conceptual drawings reminiscent of Malevich and the Russian Suprematists.
I remember that he was always out and about, also with Franco Angeli, and that both had a keen interest in women. In fact, the three of them always had issues with women. Tano Festa’s mother, who owned a hotel near Termini railway station, constantly scolded them and complained saying, “What do you do to women? Enough is enough…”
Fabio Mauri

This work is accompanied by a photo certificate issued by the Archivio delle Opere di Tano Festa, signed by Anita Festa, Rome 7 May 2003, archive no. A10030/360

Provenance:
Private Collection, Italy (acquired directly from the artist)
G. M. B. Arte, Bassano
European Private Collection

Literature:
G. Marziani, D. Trombadori, Omaggio a Tano Festa, curated by Studio Soligo, Deniarte, Associazione Culturale Tano Friends, Rome, 2017, p. 31, no. 009 with ill.

Tano and Mario were close friends and were always together; they were young, just twenty-years-old at that time. Tano initially wrote poems which he handed out to passers-by on Via del Babuino or Piazza di Spagna. From time to time, the police stopped him, as they regarded him as a dangerous subject. He also made small conceptual drawings reminiscent of Malevich and the Russian Suprematists.
I remember that he was always out and about, also with Franco Angeli, and that both had a keen interest in women. In fact, the three of them always had issues with women. Tano Festa’s mother, who owned a hotel near Termini railway station, constantly scolded them and complained saying, “What do you do to women? Enough is enough…”
Fabio Mauri