Since the mid-1960s Maurizio Nannucci (Florence 1939) explores the relationship between language, writing and image creating conceptual proposals characterized by the use of different media: neon, photography, video, sound, editions and artist’s books. He approaches visual art through a multidisciplinary dialogue involving , for example, poetry and architecture. In 1967 he created the first neon “writings” opening to a wider dimension of meanings in relation to space. With his light works, the artist has been placing images-words within a fluid exchange crossing color, sign and meaning. The use of colored tubes and neon lamps highlights visual perception and the different range of light combinations offering a new reading of the linguistic and spatial environment. From 1974 to 1985 he promoted Zona not for profit art space in Florence, and in 1998 he co-founded Base/Progetti per l’arte. Maurizio Nannucci was also founder of Zona Archives, Recorthings and Exempla Editions, working on publishing artist’s books and records, editions and documents.

Since the early Nineties he has been collaborating with architects such as Fritz Auer, Renzo Piano, Massimiliano Fuksas, Mario Botta, Nicolas Grimshaw and Stephan Braunfels and realizing several projects for public buildings. In 2015 a wider retrospective opened at the MAXXI museum in Rome, following a number of solo exhibitions among which the most recent at: Museion, Bolzano (2015), Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Étienne (2012), Uffizi Gallery, Florence (2010), Palazzo della Triennale, Milan (2006), Altes Museum, Berlin (2005), MAMCO, Geneva (1999), Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (1991). His works are presente in more than 300 museum and galleries and are part of international collections such as: Fondazione Peggy Guggenheim, Venice; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München; Berliner Museen, Berlin; Kunstsammlung des Deutscheb Bundestages, Berlin; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Parkview Museum, Singapore; Cnap, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris and Metz; MAXXI, Rome. In 2019 the largest permanent work in Italy was installed on the facades of the Pilotta Monumental Complex in pArma. The following year two neon writings were included within the public art park ArtLine Milano.

Among the most important and recent group exhibitions: Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna (2020), Sammlung Goetz, München (2019), MAMAC, Nice, Parkview Green Museum, Singapore (2017), MAMCO, Geneva (2017), Neue Galerie, Graz (2016), Kunsthalle, Wien (2015), Kiasma, Helsinki (2014), Aros Kunstmuseum, Aarhus (2013), La Maison Rouge Parigi, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai e Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2010). Over the years Maurizio Nannucci has been invited to take part in: Venice Biennale (2011, 2000, 1995, 1990, 1978, 1969), Valencia Biennial (2003), Istanbul Biennial (1995), Sydney Biennial (1990, 1982), Documenta, Kassel (1987, 1977) and Sao Paulo Biennial (1981). His first solo exhibition at Galleria Fumagalli in Bergamo was “Neon Words” inaugurated in 2005. In 2011 he conceived and exhibited in the group show “ACMN. Giovanni Anselmo, Enrico Castellani, Maurizio Mochetti and Maurizio Nannucci”, followed by the catalog published in 2018. In 2017 his second solo show “What to see what not to see” was set up at Galleria Fumagalli in the new location in Milan.

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