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Maurizio Nannucci
MAURIZIO NANNUCCI, COMING FROM NOWHERE. COMING FROM NOWHERE, 2021
LIGHT INSTALLATION FOR le printemps de septembre
© LE PRINTEMPS DE SEPTEMBRE
PHOTO: DAMIEN ASPE
Beginning his wide-ranging research into connections between language, image and reality in the 1960s, Maurizio Nannucci was the first to deploy multi-colored neon lights in the manner of sculpture. He uses characters, words or sentences to compose site-specific lightworks in which the intensity of the light endows the text with a sensual, immaterial quality – a way of reconciling pure aesthetic pleasure and formal demands.
Revisiting a piece produced for Le Printemps de septembre 2009, the façade of Espace EDF Bazacle will light up at night with a blue neon phrase that evokes the flow of the Garonne.
With the support of EDF Hydro Sud-Ouest. A coproduction between Le Printemps de septembre 2009 and La Fondation EDF Diversiterre
Born in Florence, Italy, in 1939, Maurizio Nannucci lives between Florence and Germany. Through his multidisciplinary practice (performance, video, photography, music and writing), he questions significations and representations. His works that combine writing and neon participate in this process, as does Zona publishing house, which he founded in 1968.