Maurizio Nannucci

After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and Berlin, he attended electronic music courses and worked for several years with experimental theater groups, drawing sceneries.

Since the mid-1960s, he explored the relationship between art, language and image, between light-colour and space, creating unprecedented conceptual ideas, characterized by the use of different media: neon, photography, video, sound, editions and artist's books.

Since then, Nannucci's research has always been focused in an interdisciplinary dialogue between work, architecture and urban landscape, as demonstrated by collaborations with Renzo Piano, Massimiliano Fuksas, Mario Botta, Nicolas Grimshaw and Stephan Braunfels.

Among his neon installations in public places and institutions it is worth mentioning: Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge; Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma; Bibliothek des Deutschen Bundestages e Altes Museum, Berlino; Kunsthalle, Vienna; Lenbachhaus München; Villa Arson, Nizza; Fondazione Peggy Guggenheim, Venezia; Mamco, Ginevra; Galleria d’arte moderna, Torino; Hubbrücke, Magdeburgo; Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Maxxi, Roma.

Several the recent installations of Nannucci in public spaces in Milano: from the large “And what about the truth” at the Triennale (2006) to “No more excuses”, realizes for the Expo 2015 on the façade of the Refettorio Ambrosiano in Piazzale Greco.

Maurizio Nannucci, All Art Has Been Contemporary, 1999/2000, neon lights. Altes Museum, Berlin
Maurizio Nannucci, More than meets the eye MAXXI Roma 2015
Maurizio Nannucci, Changing place, Guggenheim Venice, 2003
Maurizio Nannucci, There is another way of looking, MAM Saint'Etienne, 2012
Maurizio Nannucci, Shadow of light, Kasseler Kunstverein Friedericianum, Kassel, 1993
Maurizio Nannucci, Puro rosso puro giallo puro blu, 1990