Venue:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Curator:
Luca Massimo Barbero.

Artist:
Mario Nigro.

Exhibition description:
This exhibition presented a cross-section of Mario Nigro’s work, with specific attention to the period 1940-1960. Nigro, a protagonist of the Italian artistic scene of the second half of the twentieth century, developed an abstract language by means of a sustained dialogue with international trends. Nigro’s abstraction was constructed with reference to science, mathematics, music and tonality, and further applied with a rational methodology that considered structure as well as feeling. The show displayed his innovative research within the panorama of Italian and international abstraction — to which his many appearances at the Venice Biennale and other important shows testify. Gianni Nigro, president of the Archivio Mario Nigro, endorsed this exhibition, donating two paintings in tempera on paper by Mario Nigro to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation: Untitled (1949) and Untitled (1950), both of which are on display.

Partnerships:
Exhibition organized by the Archivio Mario Nigro, Milan.

Catalogue:
Barbero, Luca Massimo. Mario Nigro. Lo spazio totale di Mario Nigro: Struttura, percezione, colore / Mario Nogro’s total space: Structure, perception, color. Venezia: Peggy Guggenheim Collection and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2006.

Bilingual catalogue, in English and Italian. Catalogue includes preface by Philip Rylands (Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection), introduction by Gianni Nigro (President, Archivio Mario Nigro) and essays by Germano Celant and Luca Massimo Barbero. Catalogue also contains a selection of the artist’s writings, a biographical note, an exhibition history and a bibliography.

Library location: GUGG PGC 2006 .03.