Mustca’s early works during his apprenticeship are characterised by a dramatic and expressive figuration, but over time he adopted a more abstract and informal style, while still carrying this visceral link with his homeland.  Each brushstroke seems to breathe with subtle feeling, conjuring drifting atmospheres, memories, and the silent imprints of time.   Picture the shimmering blue, stirred and illuminated by the cool northern wind, gliding softly along the Ionian coast.

“My intention has always been to explore the ways technology can expand emotion within pictorial expression. This leads to the creation of plastic and pictorial elements that are shaped by technology yet conceived through painting in an ongoing dialogue between spatial and temporal dimensions. Since 1944, my focus has been the pursuit of new variations of pictorial space, envisioned as the Spirit of the Time.”

The Nino Mustica Archive is dedicated to the promotion of not only his life, but his artistic and cultural legacy by providing accurate and well documented information on his work and research.

The Nino Mustica Archive is dedicated to the promotion of not only his life, but his artistic and cultural legacy by providing accurate and well documented information on his work and research.

In the late 1980s, Nino Mustica moved from Catania to Milan, first choosing a studio in Corso di Porta Ticinese in the heart of the Colonne di San Lorenzo district, before settling permanently at Via Giovenale 7.

His Milanese studio, housed in a former 16th-century convent that had gradually been transformed into a workshop, carpentry shop, and foundry, became a vibrant hub of artistic production. It was a place rich in memory and imagination, brought to life by assistants, friends, students, artists, and critics: a space for work, exchange and experimentation.