The widespread exhibition “Mario Nigro. Works 1947-1992” promoted by the Municipality of Milan – Culture, produced by Palazzo Reale, Museo del Novecento and Eight Art Project, in collaboration with the Mario Nigro Archive, curated by Antonella Soldaini and Elena Tettamanti, opens on 14 July in the of Palazzo Reale (until 17 September) and the Museo del Novecento (until 5 November). In collaboration with the PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea a special event will also commemorate July 27, 1993 when a mafia attack destroyed the entire exhibition venue and some of Mario Nigro's works set up for his anthology. It is the largest exhibition ever dedicated to the artist with over one hundred and forty works from 1947 to the last one from 1992, including paintings, three-dimensional works, on paper and a vast selection of documents.

The exhibition also includes works exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1964, 1968, 1978, 1982, 1986 and at the X Rome Quadrennial in 1973. The exhibition marks the different moments of Nigro's artistic language: from an experimental attitude starting from the Forty to a decisive orientation towards abstract and geometric compositional structures. The artist's works suggest a recurring narrative horizon based on "rhythm", "forms" and "time", the result of a vision in which knowledge of music and scientific knowledge have a decisive influence.