Kunstsammlung Chemnitz presents Mario Nigro. Works 1952-1992, an exhibition on view from 1 December 2012 to 3 February 2013.
Mario Nigro (1917 – 1992) is one of the most important representatives of geometric abstraction in Italy. In the exhibition of large-scale works from the last four decades of his work will be shown. The retrospective exhibition – curated by Francesca Pola – is, 20 years after the artist’s death, realized in cooperation with the Archivio Mario Nigro.
After Germano Celant had issued in 2009 a catalog of works, the artist is now paid to the thirty-two selected plants in Germany for the first time a retrospective that highlights the complexity and originality of his artistic career. Mario Nigro has in the post-war period developed new visual languages and opened by the tireless exploration of the complex systems of painting an international perspective. His “radical attitude came” as Francesca Pola writes, “in the late forties to maturity, at the same time that even Alberto Burri with his material assemblages, Lucio Fontana and his multi-dimensional, experimental space concept, Capogrossi his Neokubismus and Emilio Vedova found with his abstract expressionist painterly gesture to her very own expression. Nigro went back to the origins of abstract art “and created an artistic vision that” is the breath of being itself is not descriptive but comprehensive approaches, in his works, the drama of our time, the continuity of their relationships and their immensity be alive have. “Characteristic of Nigro’s imagery is the” poetics of a relentless search for knowledge and expression, which is his entire artistic creation is based. “This search should be illustrated as regards their development through the works chosen. – http://kunstsammlungen-chemnitz.justexpertise.de
