Maurizio Nannucci

Maurizio Nannucci (Florence, Italy 1939) is an Italian contemporary artist. He lives and works in Florence and Germany. Nannucci's work includes: photography, video, neon installations, sound installation, artist's books, editions. Since the mid-sixties he is a protagonist of international artistic experimentation in Concrete Poetry, Fluxus and Conceptual Art.[1]

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In early sixties he studied art in Italy and Germany.[2] From 1965 to 1970 he had studied electronic and computer music in Florence. In 1967 he began to create first neon “writings”. Since the mid-sixties Nannucci explores the multifaceted interrelations between art, language and society, light and space, color and writing, art and nature. From the 1990s he investigates on the relationship between art, architecture, and urban landscape by collaborating with the architects Auer & Weber, Mario Botta, Stephan Braumfels, Massimiliano Fuksas, and Renzo Piano.[3]

Nannucci has participated several times in the Venice Biennale, at the Documenta Kassel, and in the Biennals of São Paulo, Sydney, Istanbul and Valencia. His work belongs to museum collections including: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munchen; Museion, Bolzano; Guggenheim Collection, Venezia; and Mamco, Genève.[4]

Curatorial projects

From 1974 to 1985 he promoted the activities curating exhibitions of the Zona non profit art space in Florence. In 1983 he broadcast Zona Radio, radiophonic program dedicated to art and experimental music. In 1998 he co-founded an artist run space Base / Progetti per l’arte.[5]

Editorial activities

He founded publishing house Exempla (1968), Recorthings (1975), Zona Archives Edizioni (1976), editing books records and multiples on artists: Sol LeWitt, John Armleder, James Lee Byars, Robert Filliou, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Carsten Nicolai, Rirkrit Tiravanija.[6] From 1976 to 1981 he published Mèla Art Magazine. [7]

Exhibitions

Museums and public installations

Multiples

References

  1. ↑ Isabelle Schwarz, Archive fur Kunstlerpublikationen der 1960er bis 1980er Jahre, Salon Verlag, 2008
  2. ↑ Emmett Williams, An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, Something Else Press, Inc., 1967, p.338
  3. ↑ Lorand Hegyi, Maurizio Nannucci, There is another way of looking at things, Silvana Editoriale, 2012. p. 230
  4. ↑ http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/biografia.php?id_art=178
  5. ↑ http://www.baseitaly.org/
  6. ↑ http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/biografia.php?id_art=178
  7. ↑ Marie Boivent,Revue d'artistes, Association ARCADE, 2008

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