Nanda Vigo: The Inner Space

This bilingual work, co-published with the MADD-Bordeaux, accompanies the exhibition Nanda Vigo, The Inner Space (July 7, 2022-January 8, 2023) which presents the artist's work through immersive installations. Architecture, art and design are approached as fields of total creation, to show, perceive and feel all the dimensions of her work.

Originally from Milan, Nanda Vigo (1936-2020) stood out in the 1960s for her transversal approach to the arts, architecture and design. An important figure in the Italian avant-garde artistic scene, she always favored experimentation and exploration. From 1959, she frequented the studio of Lucio Fontana, before becoming closer to the artists Piero Manzoni and Enrico Castellani, who founded the Azimuth gallery in Milan. It was during this period that she discovered the artists of the ZERO movement in Germany, the Netherlands and France. Between 1964 and 1966, she participated in numerous ZERO exhibitions in Europe; in 1965, she organized the legendary exhibition Zero Avantgarde in Lucio Fontana's studio in Milan. In 1971, she received the New York Award for Industrial Design for the Golden Gate lamp produced by Arredoluce, and she carried out one of her most emblematic projects for the Casa Museo Remo Brindisi in Lido di Spina. In 1976, she won the Saint-Gobain first prize for glass design, and in 1982 she participated in the 40^th Venice Biennale.

Text in French and English