“My work is deeply rooted in colour, while still crossing the boundaries of painting, sculpture and architecture”
WORKS
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.”
Explore ARTWORKS“I am fascinated by the painting experience, by painting in a different way every day. To stretch, to break, to rebuild… to be ready to rethink everything.”
TIMELINES
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1946-1979
”Young Nino Mustica alongside the artwork Mia sorella in cucina (My Sister in the Kitchen), Catania.” → -
1980-1989
Nino Mustica durante la fase produttiva delle pitture scenografiche, Museo Calouste Gulbenkian, Lissbona. → -
1990-1993
Nino Mustica al lavoro a Desiderio di danza nel suo studio a Milano. Foto Antonio Redaelli → -
1994-1999
Nino Mustica con delle Forme Pittoriche Tridimensionali nel suo studio a Milano. → -
2000-2005
Performance Skin to Skin, Museum der Satdt Waiblingen. → -
2006-2010
Nino Mustica al lavoro nel suo studio a Tower I. → -
2011-2018
Nino Mustica. Foto Fabio Mantegna →
ARCHIVE
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.
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1988-2018
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.
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