Maurizio Nannucci

Born in 1939 in Florence, where he currently lives and works. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and Berlin, he worked for several years with experimental theater groups, designing sets. In the early 1960s, he defined the fundamental elements of his visual research by exploring the relationships between art, language, and image, creating the first "Dactilograms" in which words regain the power of symbols. During the same period, he established connections with artists from the Fluxus movement, became interested in visual poetry, and collaborated with the "S 2F M" studio (Studio di Fonologia Musicale di Firenze) in the production of electronic music, focusing on the use of voice and words for sound installations.In 1967, on the occasion of his first solo exhibition at the Centro Arte Viva in Trieste, he presented the first texts created with neon lights, through which he highlighted the temporality of writing rather than the materiality of objects. In 1968, he founded the publishing houses Exempla and Zona Archives Edizioni in Florence, which published editions by artists such as Sol LeWitt, John Armleder, James Lee Byars, Robert Filliou, and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Nannucci considers editions and multiples as manifestations of artistic practice that view art as a mental process, applicable to the mass production of everyday objects to reach areas outside of art. The artistic object loses its uniqueness but gains presence and new freedom.Always interested in the relationship between artwork, architecture, and urban landscapes, the artist collaborated with various architects in the 1990s, including Auer Weber, Mario Botta, Massimiliano Fuksas, and Renzo Piano. His works are part of the collections of numerous museums worldwide, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; from the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris to the Paul Getty Art Center in Los Angeles and the MAXXI in Rome. Among the latest acquisitions, "The missing poem is the poem" became part of the permanent collection of MAXXI L'Aquila - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (2021); "New Times for Other Ideas / New Ideas for Other Times," an installation that enriched City Life Park in Milan (2020); "New horizons for other visions new visions for other horizons," was included in the exhibition at Palazzo Maffei, Verona (2020); "Time Past And Time Present Are Both Perhaps Present In Time Future," the largest permanent work created by the artist in Italy, in the Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta, Parma (2019). Among the various permanent installations, there is one at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, at Fiumicino Airport in Rome, and at the Bibliothek des Deutschen Bundestages in Berlin. The artist participated in the group exhibition "66|16" at Galleria Enrico Astuni (2016), and an important retrospective was dedicated to him at the MAXXI Museum in Rome (2015). He has also participated multiple times in the Venice Biennale, Documenta in Kassel, and the Biennials of São Paulo, Sydney, Istanbul, and Valencia.