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Mario Nigro (Pistoia, 1917 – Livorno, 1992). He moved first to Arezzo and then to Livorno, where he highlighted his first artistic qualities albeit in compositions largely pervaded by a tired pictorial traditionalism. Read the full biography

Mario Nigro Biography

Mario Nigro (Pistoia, 1917 – Livorno, 1992). He moved first to Arezzo and then to Livorno, where he highlighted his first artistic qualities albeit in compositions largely pervaded by a tired pictorial traditionalism. In 1945 he founded the modern artistic group (GAM) together with Voltolino Fontani and other painters from Livorno. His attention was initially oriented towards the great masters of Italian painting, such as Sironi and De Chirico, although his interest in abstraction then took over. In 1949 he joined Gillo Dorfles's Concrete Art Movement (MAC). His artistic activity is not only made up of works of art but also of writings, so much so that in 1954 he managed to publish his first theoretical work on "Total Space". In 1958 he decided to move, two years later he suffered a serious car accident which permanently impaired him. In 1964 he was invited to the Venice Biennale. In 1968 he obtained a personal room at the Venice Biennale, in which he participated several times in the following years. His decidedly original work crosses over into the field of optical art and from the mid-sixties into "minimal" art, also showing connections with a discipline such as architecture, so much so that in jargon some of his productions from the 1950s are called "skyscrapers ”. Celebrated several times in international art exhibitions, including that of 1971 in Munster ("Concrete art. Italian constructivism") Mario Nigro passed away in Livorno, his adopted city, in 1992. In 1993 the Venice Biennale made him honor with an exhibition that launches a new reinterpretation of his work.