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