Room 2 - MARIO NIGRO

MARIO NIGRO / Biography
 
 Mario Nigro (Pistoia 1917 - Livorno, 1992). In 1949, he held his first solo exhibition at the Libreria Salto in Milan. Following this exhibition is called part of the Concrete Art Movement, together with Dorfles, Munari, Monnet and others. In 1951 his "checkered panels and concurrent iterative" are exhibited at the Salon des Nouvelles Réalités of Paris. In 1952, his abstraction, nourished on musical suggestions, abandons the static orthogonal and assumes the characteristic reticular and dynamic, the starting phase of work called "Total Space". In 1953 he exhibited for the first time his rhythmic grids simultaneously at venues in Milan, Turin and Florence. That same year he made a manifesto for the election-fraud against the law, peace and independence from foreign occupation troops, the document will then be destroyed by the police, and the episode has a negative impact on the atmosphere that surrounds in his job to Hospitals. In 1954 he began to publish catalogs and bulletins of his writings, initially related to the theme of "Total Space". In 1957, he was present at the collective exhibition "Fifty years of abstract painting in the world", organized by the Gallery in Paris by the artist Michel Creuze Seuphor. In 1958, he quits his job as a pharmacist and moved to Milan, against the wishes of his wife, from which you will separate later. Ceases to work temporarily in 1960 because of a serious car accident in which his nephew is killed and he himself suffers permanent physical damage. In 1964, thanks to the intercession of Lucio Fontana, was invited for the first time at the Venice Biennale. In 1965 the work cycle called "Total Time" has a place in the minimal sense: his plots are reduced more and more reticular series of lines that describe moments rather than places. From the geometric rigor of the project (fixed structures) emerge to as "chromatic licenses," the freedom that the artist is allowed in terms of choice of color and its emotional value. In 1968 he was invited to the XXXIV Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition in the Italian Pavilion, participating in the protest which also provides coverage of the works-is the closure of salt and a protest rally in Piazza San Marco. In 1975, matures the cycle of "Total Time", which gives rise to a series of "color-licensed fixed structures": the fixity of the geometric design behind the design, composed of thin lines, is matched by a new freedom lyric and narrative use of color. This gives rise to the following research on the "Metaphysics of color." Of 1978 are the first structural work on the elementary geometric concepts, the same year exhibited at the Venice Biennale. His works are sometimes present at the event in Venice, from 1982 until the edition of 1993, as part of the homage to Carla Lanzi. Since 1979 the artist shifted his interest in the environmental interactions between painting and architecture, and then start the destruction of the line and geometry of its construction in 1980, with the series of "Earthquake". From this point the lines begin to be drawn freehand (series of "Horizons"), then break into almost pointillist points, bigger and more gestural ("Footsteps"), which will be developed in works of informal value ( series of "Cypresses" and "Satanic Paintings"). Only in the nineties, with the series of "Meditations" for acrylic and "Structures" in ink, Nigro returns to construct pictorial space in a geometric way, even if they are irrevocably freehand. In 1992 he was awarded by the Foundation for the art of building Camille Graeser.

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