Changing Place, Changing Time, Changing Thoughts, Changing Future
Maurizio Nannucci, 2003
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
The light from a neon text, mounted up on the wall, changes the space it is in. It changes time as the viewer takes a moment to read and think about it. Perhaps it changes something in their thoughts, which in turn might change the future.
Simple and right to the point, that is what this is. And what it should be.
About the artist
Maurizio Nannucci (1939, Florence, Italy) is an Italian contemporary artist. Lives and works in Florence, Italy and South Baden, Germany. Nannucci's work includes: photography, video, neon installations, sound installation, artist's books, and editions. Since the mid-sixties he is a protagonist of international artistic experimentation in Concrete Poetry and Conceptual Art.
From 1967 are the first neon works that bring to his work a more diverse dimension of meaning and a new perception of space. 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. He has participated several times at the Venice Biennale, Documenta in Kassel and the Biennales of São Paulo, Sydney, Istanbul, Valencia, and has exhibited in the most important museums and galleries all over the world.
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