Mario Nigro, works from 1947 to 1992

Palazzo Reale, Museo del Novecento and Eight Art Project celebrate the philosophical work of a master of Italian painting: Mario Nigro. A decentralised exhibition, in collaboration with the Mario Nigro archive, that will be opening in locations adjacent to Palazzo Reale and the Museo del Novecento in Milan on 14 July 2023. An artist who developed alongside maestros such as Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Emilio Vedova and Giuseppe Capogrossi, and who cultivated a form of poetry unique for the genre, completely centred on processes of creation and deconstruction. A complex body of work that saw him identified by the international art scene as an “intellectual and unique artist.

A wide-ranging and substantial collection with more than 140 pieces, from 1947 to 1992. Paintings, documents and his unforgettable three-dimensional works that focus on rhythm and geometric elements. The highlight of the exhibition are the pieces that were exhibited at the Venice Biennial in 1964, ‘68, ‘78, ‘82 and ‘86, as well as those for the 10th Quadriennial in Rome in 1973. “The Neo-Cubism experience”, recalled the artist in an autobiography “led me, between 1946 and ‘47, to the first elements, as backgrounds without figurative points of reference, and the figures themselves became autonomous geometrising forms, which one could say draw inspiration instinctively from Kandinsky, Klee, Mondrian and Malevic”.
The exhibition, curated by Antonella Soldani and Elena Tettamanti, will be shown in the halls of Palazzo Reale until 17 September 2023, while the exhibition at the Museo del Novecento will be open until 5 November 2023.