Nino Mustica Biography
(Adrano, 26 August 1946 - Milan, 16 January 2018) Artist of Sicilian origin, Nino Mustica was born in Adrano, in the province of Catania, on 26 August 1946. His early training took place within the home, where his mother passed on to him passion for painting and music and his engineer father for drawing and architecture. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, and before that at the Art Institute of Catania, where, at twenty-one, he won the professorship for teaching life drawing and visual education, an activity that he considers an integral part of his training. A curious traveller, he deepens his knowledge of the history of art by visiting the museums of Europe and the world during long stays in the capitals of the North, which he likes to define as a "graphic lesson", and in those of the South, a "pictorial lesson". Among his teachers Giotto, "the first abstract-chromatic artist in history", Piero della Francesca, "the first conceptual, the first to adopt a geometric-mathematical construction", followed by the German expressionists, Matisse, Klee and Kandinsky, of which he technically studies some details. Among the most significant experiences of his career were the stays in London and Copenhagen, at the beginning of the Seventies, and that in New York, in the early Eighties. In London Mustica immersed himself in a free culture devoted to experimentation, especially in music, the art he considered closest to the spiritual and capable of influencing other forms of expression. In fact, through music he leaves guration and arrives at abstraction. In his travels in Asia and Africa he found a mediation between Eastern and Western cultures and his sign became calligraphic; south of Sicily it delves into the intensity of light and colour. He definitively left his homeland in 1986 to move to Milan. He continues to teach at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, then in Budapest, at the University of Fine Arts and again in Milan, at the Polytechnic. He later renounces this activity to dedicate himself completely to painting, the urgency of which he feels is greater: his research focuses above all on the possibility of shaping colour, giving shape to painting. In 1994 the transformation of color and its emotions on the canvas into "color forms" became concrete thanks to a computer graphics and 3D modeling program with which he began to develop his painting, giving life to a process that is still unique and completely personal .
