Maurizio Nannucci

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Maurizio Nannucci (born April 20, 1939 in Florence ) is an Italian concept and light artist . He works mainly with neon installations and creates art in public spaces . In 1977 he was represented at documenta 6 in Kassel.

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE, Maurizio Nannucci, 2012.

life and work

Maurizio Nannucci has been involved as a photographer , video producer and light artist since the 1960s in investigations into the structure of forms and sequences, and later in the use of language in the new media. Since the late 1960s, his research work has been accompanied by edition objects such as prints , multiples , records and artist books , in which he made his thought processes accessible to a larger audience. Nannucci was editor-in-chief of the magazine Méla (1976–1981) and founded “Zona Archiv Editions” in 1968, an artist project in which editions by u. a. Lawrence Weiner , Sol LeWitt , John Armleder , James Lee Byars , Robert Filliou , Ian Hamilton Finlay and Heimo Zobernig , Carsten Nicolai, John Giorno appeared.

Since the early 1970s, Maurizio Nannucci has  become a world-famous neon artist with his light installations - parallel to Jenny Holzer . “ He combines language, light and space into poetic situations and creates spherical spaces with the fleetingness of the light, which are also created by the imagination of the viewer. "

“Blue Ring” for the library of the German Bundestag in the Spreebogen

A good example is the work entitled “Blue Ring”, which he designed for the library of the German Bundestag in Berlin and which runs in the rotunda of the library under the ceiling as blue neon writing . Inspired by Hannah Arendt's text passage " Freedom is conceivable as a possibility of acting among equals / equality is conceivable as a possibility of acting for freedom ", he points out the tension between the principles of freedom and equality.

Illuminated installation at the Altes Museum .

In 2005 the light installation "ALL ART HAS BEEN CONTEMPORARY" shone on the portal of the Altes Museum in Berlin .

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Exhibitions (selection)

Works in public collections

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview exhibition: Nothing is Original. Editions, Multiples, Artist's Books, Records, Ephemera in the Sprengel Museum Hannover, 2002
  2. ↑ Sabine Oppholzer in: Art in Salzburg .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. oe1.ORF.at@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / oe1.orf.at  
  3. ^ "Blue Ring", neon installation, 1998/2003, library of the German Bundestag in the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus , Berlin ( Flyer: Maurizio Nannucci; Art in the Bundestag , PDF)
  4. ^ Maurizio Nannucci bundestag.de
  5. ↑ All Art has been contemporary - 2005 museumstechnik.de
  6. ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88645-157-7 , p. 223 .
personal data
SURNAME Nannucci, Maurizio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian concept and light artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence