Maurizio Nannucci, Neon-Texts, Galerie Susanna Kulli, Zürich
Maurizio Nannucci - Neon-Texts
Galerie Susanna Kulli / Zurich
February 27 - April 20, 2009
opening reception: Friday, February 27, 2009, 6 p.m.
Gallery Susanna Kulli is showing Maurizio Nannucci “Neon-Text” from the "Anthology 1967/ 2009… “, a collection of single-line sentences, which the artist writes and complements continously in a work in progress since the middle of the 60s.
A poetical basic gives the "Anthology 1967/2009…“ a suggestive colouring and the multiplicity of most different statements causes its linguistic richness. The collection of texts contains simple statements and laconic declarations, just like negations of general sentences, tautologies or direct appeals and requests to the viewer.
The combination of language, sign, meaning, color, light and space forms the basis of the installation "Neon-Texts“, created for the Gallery Susanna Kulli. By dissolving the borders of the gallery's exhibition space, Nannucci includes in his exhibition concept also the office, the storage and the hallway, spreading out a multicolored shining parcours of vertically installed typefaces. The context-referred installation of the neon writings and the interpretation of the meaning court of the individual texts, just like their entity, allow the viewer a meditative inner dialogue and a language bound color seeing.
Everybody needs a place to think / Wherever you are wherever you go / Reflecting contemporary practices / Events take time events take space / In regard to simplicity nothing is defined / Some words different thoughts / Images are the origin of language.
Maurizio Nannucci (born 1939 in Florence) is among the internationally well-known artists of the present, who prepared the ground for neon art.
In the early 60s Nannucci began taking part in the tendencies of experimental art (Concrete Poetry, Fluxus, Minimal Art, Conceptual Art…) and developed his own artistic concept and repertoire. He dedicates himself to the investigation of the interrelations of writing, language and meaning, of color, light and space, by using a wide spectrum of media and materials (photography, video, sound, neon lights, artist's books, multiples & editions).
Maurizio Nannucci uses language in its ambiguity and writing in its concrete plasticity. In the early sixties, he examined concrete language structures and made them visible and audible with visual and acoustic means of communication. In the year 1964, he developed the first minimal typed, square language images “Dattilogrammi “(1964/1965), from which each subjective gesture is eliminated. The following works “M40 “and “eagle “ (1967) are based on this standard model.
In co-operation with the architects Renzo Piano, Massimiliano Fuksas, Mario Botta, Stefan Braunfels, Auer & Weber and Thomas Müller, Maurizio Nannucci realized projects for permanent neon installations, permeating the space lines of the interiors with color, light and language and exploring architecture as a resonance space for art. Maurizio Nannucci took part several times at the biennials of Venice, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Istanbul and at Documenta in Kassel. His works were shown in around 300 exhibitions in museums and galleries.
www.maurizionannuci.it