Nanda Vigo: Space Without Time

After studying architecture in Switzerland, she spent a period in the United States and in the late 1950s she returned to Milan, there she opened her own studio in 1959.

From that moment the main theme of her research becomes the conflict and the harmony between light and space, a theme that the artist also applies to her work as architect and designer.

During the 1960s she developed professional and friendship bonds with artists such as Piero Manzoni and Lucio Fontana, who, like her, investigated the relationship between space and light.

Nanda Vigo in this period began to use transparent materials, such as crystal, smooth or printed glass, plexiglass and steel, materials that capture light, reflect and refract it, especially when combined.

The Cronotopo are a sort of boxes, in various sizes in which the transparent materials overlap each other, and sometimes also contain some neon.

In this way these works capture the light, and make it "concrete" because it is through the interaction with the materials that it becomes visible.

But at the same time the trick of the light that these materials produce make it difficult to understand what the real shape of light is, so the perception of the visitor enters an indefinable space without dimension and out of time.