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Portrait of the artist Mario Nigro. © Gianni Nigro (detail)
Portrait of the artist Mario Nigro. © Gianni Nigro (detail)

The painter, draughtsman and printmaker Mario Nigro is considered to be one of the most significant exponents of post-war geometric abstraction in Italy. Born in 1917 in Pistoia as the son of a professor of Mathematics, Nigro’s upbringing predetermined the development of his geometrically-influenced style. Along with painting, he was also greatly influenced by music. However, after having moved to his adopted city, Livorno, in 1929, Mario Nigro began to study Chemistry in 1936, and he continued his studies in Pharmacology at the University of Pisa in 1947. Though he worked as a pharmacist, Mario Nigro remained artistically active. In the post-war period, artworks from the Pittura Metafisica and Expressionist movements attracted his attention. Soon afterward Mario Nigro himself dove into abstraction, becoming one of the protagonists of the Movimento Arte Concreta movement, which was founded in Milan in 1948. His works were exhibited in the Parisian Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, a centre of post-war abstraction, and elsewhere. In the 1950s Mario Nigro chose to devote himself entirely to painting and strove toward a quasi-musical dynamic in his abstractions.

In the mid-1960s Nigro’s oeuvre was influenced by Minimal Art, and his later works ultimately focused on the interplay between painting and architecture. Over the course of his artistic career, Mario Nigro took part in the Venice Biennale multiple times. Today his works are found in innumerable prominent museums in Rome, Milan, Genoa, Florence, and Bologna, among others. There have been many exhibitions of his work, including the retrospective exhibitions Homage to Mario Nigro at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice in 2006 and Mario Nigro. Werke / Works 1952 - 1992 at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz in 2012/2013. Mario Nigro was awarded the Camille Graeser Foundation Prize and died in 1992 in Livorno.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
2019
Mario Nigro. Dallo „Spazio totale“ alle „Strutture“ – Retrospektive 1948 – 1992

Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany

2018
Mario Nigro. Gli spazi del colore

Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection, Locarno, Switzerland

2017
Mario Nigro. From "vertical rhythm" to "total space"

A Arte Invernizzi, Milan, Italy

2017
Mario Nigro. Le strutture dell´esistenza

Dep Art Gallery, Milan, Italy

2017
Mario Nigro. Gli spazi del colore

Fondazine Ragghianti, Lucca, Italy

2017
Mario Nigro

Ca´di Fra´, Milan, Italy

2012
Mario Nigro. Werke 1952 - 1992

Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany

2011
Mario Nigro. Opere

Ca´di Fra´, Milan, Italy

2010
Mario Nigro. Dallo Spazio totale ai Dipinti satanici

A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan, Italy

2009
Mario Nigro. Opere su carta 1950-1991

Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy

2006
Mario Nigro - Meditazioni

Arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan, Italy

2006
Homage to Mario Nigro (1917-1992)

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

2003
Mario Nigro. La rarefazione del segno

A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan, Italy

2000-01
Mario Nigro. Konzentration und Reduktion in der Malerei

Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany

1998
Mario Nigro. Opere 1987 - 1992

A arte Studio Invernizzi, Mailand & Cardi Galleria d'arte, Artra; Santo Ficara Arte Contemporanea, Salone Villa Romana, Florence, Italy

1996
Mario Nigro. Tempo totale 1965 - 1975

Palazzo Municipale, Vignate & Centro Espositivo della Rocca Paolina, Perugia, Italy

Group exhibitions
2018
L´Occhio Filosofico

A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan, Italy

2018
Light and Movement in European Post-War Art

Cortesi Gallery, London, Great Britain

2017
Konkrete Anliegen. Sammlung Teufel

Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

2017
L´emozione die COLORI nell´arte

Castello di Rivoli Museo d´Arte Contemoranea, Rivoli, Italy; GAM - Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemoranea, Turin, Italy

2017
To bid or not to bid

Thomas Brambilla, Bergamo, Italy

2016
Painting in Italy 1910s-1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art

Robilant+Voena, London, Great Britain

2015
Gleich und gleich und gleich und

Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany

2015
Nanda Vigo, Affinitá elette

Galleria San Fedele, Milan, Italy

2015
Un´idea di pittura. Astrazione analitica in Italia 1972-1976

Casa Cavazzini, Museo d´arte moderna e contemporanea, Udine, Italy

2015
PROPORTIO

Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

2015
Rendevous der Länder - Neuhängung der Sammlung Peter C. Ruppert - Konkrete Kunst in Europa nach 1945

Museum Kunstspeicher, Würzburg, Germany

2014
Mario Nigro - Gianfranco Zappettini, " Non è molto facile formare un gruppo…"

Maurizo Caldirola Arte Contemporanea, Monza, Italy

2014
Morterone: una soglia poetica. Natura Arte Poesia

Palazzo delle Poure, Lecco, Italy

2013
Gli anni Sessanta nelle Collezione Guggenheim. Oltre L´Informale verso la Pop Art

ARCA, Vercelli, Italy

2012
I gianti dell´avanguardia. Mirò, Mondrian, Calder e le collezioni Guggenheim

Arca di Vercelli - Chiesa di San Marco, Vercelli, Italy

2012
Il colore come forma plastica. Percorso attraverso uns forma di astrazione

Gallerie d´Itala - Piazza Scale, Milan, Italy

2012
In astratto. Abstraction in Italy. Astrazione in Italia. 1930-1980

Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, Great Britain; CAMeC Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia, Italy

2011
Temi & Variazioni. Scrittura e spazio / Gastone Novelli e Venezia

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

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