Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza di Biumo, near Varese, dates back to the mid-eighteenth century and was enlarged by the architect Luigi Canonica in the neoclassical period. The villa is famous for hosting collections of contemporary art that Giuseppe Panza di Biumo collecting since the 50s. The stables and the salons are currently home for hundreds of works accompanied by furnishings and frescoes dating back to the period between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The villa also houses a permanent collection of works by Dan Flavin, American artist, author of numerous installations made with neon lights wall. Among the first to use light as an expressive element, Flavin tries to express the feelings of the subconscious through an art of minimalist influence. The perception of space, rooms and corridors is altered by the mystical light of neon.
Above: Meeting between lights. upright. 2012
Mario Nanni always considers light as an architectural element to be molded, a material entity with which the play of shadows gives shape to the abstract. The artist's first love is the natural light, but soon begins to develop unusual and artificial compositional languages. Along the exhibition the light becomes word to explain the journey of a man through his interest in the light of his studies and his experiments.
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