Maurizio Nannucci's Neon Works Illuminate Rome

Maurizio Nannucci (born 1939, Florence) presents 'Think / Neon Multiples' at COLLI INDEPENDENT in Rome, running until October 1, 2016, with a summer closure from July 31 to September 12. The exhibition explores the artist's investigation into sequentiality and reproducibility of art through decontextualization, alongside a deep inspection of the correspondences and differences between langue and parole—structuralist dichotomies projected into contemporary language. Words, phrases, symbols, and codifications adopt a disorienting lexicon in neon installations that absorb and emit colored light. The titular neon piece 'Think' symbolically alludes to the capacity to create connections between cultures through the concept of light, drawing on a vast repertoire of interpretations, including folkloric ones. The fluorescent neon shapes architecture, spaces, and places through code, intimately altering perception and isolating contemporary vision in a multiplicity of interpretations.