Representative work by Mario Nigro
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Artist

Mario Nigro

b. 1917, Pistoia, Italy · Based in Milan, Italy

  • Degrees in Chemistry and Pharmacology, University of Pisa (1940)
  • Painting
  • Total Space Abstraction
  • Kinetic Art

Mario Nigro was a seminal Italian abstract painter who co-founded the Movimento Arte Concreta (MAC). Formulating rhythmic grids he termed 'Total Space', his optical vibrating lines translate scientific concepts of atomic energy and musical time into radical geometric painting.

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