Maurizio Nannucci
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.
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. "
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.
In 2005 the light installation "ALL ART HAS BEEN CONTEMPORARY" shone on the portal of the Altes Museum in Berlin .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2015 Maxxi, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Roma
- 2015 Museion, Bolzano
- 2012 Musèe d'Art Moderne, Saint Etienne
- 2008 Malmö Konsthall ; Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe
- 2007 J. Paul Getty Museum , Los Angeles
- 2005 Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
- 2004 Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst , Antwerp; Museion - Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea , Bolzano; New Gallery Graz ; Peggy Guggenheim Collection , Venice
- 2003 Galerie Beyeler, Basel; Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp
- 2002 Sprengel Museum Hannover; Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Turin
- 2000 Venice Biennale ; Beyeler Foundation , Riehen
- 1999 Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
- 1997 Kunsthaus Bregenz ; Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna
- 1995 Vienna Secession , Vienna
- 1994 ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
- 1993 Museum Fridericianum , Kassel
- 1991 You Can Imagine the Opposite , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich
- 1990 Vienna Secession Vienna; Aarhus Art Museum
- 1987 documenta 8 , Kassel
- 1978 Venice Biennale
- 1977 documenta 6 , Kassel
Works in public collections
- MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp (Belgium)
- ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus (Denmark)
- Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich
- MUSEION - Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano (Italy)
- Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Italy)
- National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa (Canada)
- Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (Croatia)
- City Gallery Wolfsburg
- Museum in the Kulturspeicher , Peter C. Ruppert Collection
- Maxxi, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Roma (Italy)
- Veerlinden Museum, Wassenaar, (Holland)
Web links
- Website by Maurizio Nannucci
- Literature by and about Maurizio Nannucci in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Maurizio Nannucci in the German Digital Library
- Search for Maurizio Nannucci in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Materials by and about Maurizio Nannucci in the documenta archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview exhibition: Nothing is Original. Editions, Multiples, Artist's Books, Records, Ephemera in the Sprengel Museum Hannover, 2002
- ↑ 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
- ^ "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)
- ^ Maurizio Nannucci bundestag.de
- ↑ All Art has been contemporary - 2005 museumstechnik.de
- ↑ 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 | |
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SURNAME | Nannucci, Maurizio |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian concept and light artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1939 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |