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Nerone & Patuzzi

1937 - 1996 (NERONE) Turin, Italy
Nerone & Patuzzi

Giovanni Ceccarelli, who worked under the name Nerone, was born in Pisa in 1937.

The maker

Biography

After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and Florence, Nerone left Pisa for Turin in 1957, aged twenty. It was there that he examined the work of the Bauhaus movement and developed a particular affinity with Oscar Schlemmer and LÔszlò Moholy-Nagy.


Models & collaborations

Models and collaborations

The expressive wall panels date from the most prolific years of his individual career, by which time he had established himself fully as an artist and had received international recognition and prizes.