Mario Nigro

Nigro was born in Pistoia but he moved with his family to Livorno in 1929. Since the young age, he shows an eclectic personality: he graduates in Chemistry and Pharmacy, while studying piano, violin and painting. He came to abstraction around 1947 and in 1949 he held his first personal exhibition at the Salto Bookshop in Milan; following this exhibition, he was invited to join the Concrete Art Movement. In 1952 his work assumes the characteristic reticular of the series called “Spazio Totale”, while, in 1975, the series “Tempo Totale” matured, giving rise to “Strutture fisse con licenza cromatica”. Since 1979 the artist shifted his interest to the environmental interactions between painting and architecture, destroying the line and its geometric construction in 1980, with the "Terremoti" series; from this point the lines begin to be drawn freehand or broken into almost Divisionist points. In the nineties, with the series of acrylic "Meditazioni" and ink "Strutture", Nigro returned to construct the pictorial space in a geometric way. The artist passed away in Livorno on 12 August 1992.

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