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Maurizio Nannucci, Italian, b. 1939
Since the mid-1960s Maurizio Nannucci (Florence 1939) explores the relationship between language, writing and image creating conceptual proposals characterized by the use of different media: neon, photography, video, sound, editions and artist’s books. He approaches visual art through a multidisciplinary dialogue involving, for example, poetry and architecture. In 1967 he created the first neon “writings” opening to a wider dimension of meanings in relation to space. With his light works, the artist has been placing images-words within a fluid exchange crossing color, sign and meaning. The use of colored tubes and neon lamps highlights visual perception and the different range of light combinations offering a new reading of the linguistic and spatial environment. From 1974 to 1985 he promoted Zona not for profit art space in Florence, and in 1998 he co-founded Base/Progetti per l’arte. Maurizio Nannucci was also founder of Zona Archives, Recorthings and Exempla Editions, working on publishing artist’s books and records, editions and documents. Since the early Nineties he has been collaborating with architects such as Fritz Auer, Renzo Piano, Massimiliano Fuksas, Mario Botta, Nicolas Grimshaw and Stephan Braunfels and realizing several projects for public buildings.
