Metafisica del colore: Mario Nigro
Lorenzelli arte continues its exhibition activity with “Metafisica del colore” by Mario Nigro, a great representative of abstract art who in the second post-war period invented new visual languages opening up to an international perspective through continuous analysis of the complex systems of painting. The Tuscan artist (Pistoia, 1917) achieved after 1948 supremacist neoplastic outcomes by conducting a coherent investigation on the concepts of space and time as concrete realities of the experience, translating them into patterns and geometric progressions which, in their rhythmic scans, result in an analogy with the musical construction.
The exhibition allows to grasp the complexity and novelty of Mario Nigro’s work through a selection of more than fifty works including oils on canvas and on masonite and papers with canvas backing covering the period between 1969 and 1975, starting from complete maturation of the “Spazio totale” cycle, represented in the exhibition by a small tempera on board from the early 60s, which for over a decade was the focal point of his research in which Nigro analyzes and dissects the problems and implications of space in progressive elaborations in studies both on paper and on canvas, revealing his interest in a certain type of dynamism that has its roots in the results of the Futurist’s experimentations.