Maurizio Nannucci's "auto(biblio)biography" (artist's book).
492 characters. This book comprises sixty bound pages that are intrinsic to a cultural process of thinking, writing, reading, sending messages, connecting people. Books are an inte- gral part of my art practice. Making books and searching for books means for me a mutual relationship reinforcing each other. Cross-reading fulfils my desire to connect thoughts, words, texts, ideas with the imagination's autonomy and casuality. I cannot stop the pleasure of cross-reading various printed books which opens up possibilities of exploring random combinations and discovering unexpected meanings.
Autobiography is a series published by Tonini Editore. Each volume is dedicated to an artist, who is free to carry out the topic of the autobiography by means of text or visual supports. Belonging to a series, each book has the same size and maximum amount of pages (64). The selection of the artists participating to the series is coordinated by a scientific committee made up of six renown personalities in the world of the art research and collection: Pedro Barbosa (collector and founder of the Coleção Moraes - Barbosa), Alex Bacon (art historian), Claudio Guenzani (gallery owner in Milan, owner of the Studio Guenzani),
Michele Lombardelli (artist, composer, typographer and consultant for several publishing houses), Shwetal Ashvin Patel (writer and researcher, founding member of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale), Christoph Schifferli (collector and scholar), and Valentino Tonini (director of the homonymous publishing house).
Maurizio Nannucci (born 1939 in Florence), affiliated with
Fluxus, is a leading figure in the Italian analytical and
conceptual art movements. Since the 1960s, he has explored the relationship between art,
language and image.
