Mario Nigro. At Palazzo Reale and at the Museo del Novecento

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In two venues, at Palazzo Reale and at the Museo del Novecento, the major retrospective dedicated to Mario Nigro (1917-1992) resumes the various phases of his research. On display more than 140 works created from 1947 until the last painting executed in 1992, works on canvas and paper, and three-dimensional, which define the experiences of the Tuscan artist in the field of Abstractionism. Experiments that explore different aspects of the abstract galaxy, from composition to geometry, from color to sign, collected in eight rooms at Palazzo Reale. The concepts of space and time, horizons and lines, metaphysics and vibrations, "footprints" and "portraits" are defined between grids and dense grids, black and white contrasts and primary color interferences; while in the more informal works the rigid structures dissolve to give way to the gesture and the sign; to the color that fades and dissolves in the soft tones of the "meditations". (Piazza Duomo 12. www.palazzorealemilano.it. From 14 July to 17 September. Hours: 12-19.30; Thu. 12-22.30; Mon. closed. Prices Admission free) The same concepts also elaborated in the works on paper, exhibited at the Museum of the twentieth century in the Archives space, together with a large amount of documentation that delves into the author's career, with notes, texts, sketches, catalogs and photographs by Ugo and Maria Mulas. (Piazza Duomo 8. Tel. 02.88.44.40.61. From 14 July to 5 November. Hours 10-19.30; Thu 10-22.30; closed Mon. Prices 10/8 euro): of "Performing PAC", exhibiting one of his works and organizing a conference, on 25 July, to evoke the massacre in via Palestro thirty years after the tragic event, when the explosion destroyed and damaged even the artist's works that had just arrived in Milan to be staged in a tribute exhibition to his work. What it is It is a large retrospective dedicated to the great Italian master of abstract art which brings together works executed from 1947 to 1992. Chosen because The author's journey is completely reconstructed in its phases.

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