Community Archives Pantone 807 U: a manifesto by Maurizio Nannucci

“Community Archives Pantone 807 U” is the second manifesto created by Maurizio Nannucci for ‘Community Archives’. Printed on off-white paper in a edition of 200 copies, it is distributed free of charge to the public in the exhibition space.

Maurizio Nannucci

Maurizio Nannucci, artist (Florence 1939). Maurizio Nannucci trained between Florence and Berlin and began his career in the mid-1960s in concrete poetry and electronic music, attending Pietro Grossi’s Studio di phonologia musicale S2FM (1965/1969). In 1965 Nannucci created the “Dattilogrammi” (Dactylograms), which were published in various anthologies, including Emmett Williams‘ “Anthology of Concrete Poetry” in 1967. He then participated in the exhibitions “Poesia concreta indirizzate concreti, visuali e fonetici,” organized by the Venice Biennale at Ca’ Giustinian in 1969, and in “Concrete Poesie?” at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1970. “Alfabetofonetico” inaugurated an anthology of neon texts still in progress, implementing a shift in the field of artistic intervention from the blank page to urban and architectural space, investigated in its primary structures to create dialectical tensions between its points of spatial definition (such as the floor, walls, and ceiling). In 1969 he created his first neon multiple, “box,” written in his own handwriting (a constant in his research) and intended for a box of multiples (“Multibox”) produced by the first self-managed and non-profit artists’ organization he co-founded in 1967 in Florence: the Centro ricerche estetiche F/uno. The work is emblematic of his research, not only for its technique, but also because it indicates his propensity to promote collective experiences, centered on a Situationist-inspired ethic of participation and action marginal to the official art system, which saw him open, also in Florence, the self-managed and non-profit spaces Zona (1974/1985) and Base (1998). With a view to creating a more streamlined system for the dissemination of ideas and for up-to-date and rapid information on experimentation, Nannucci edited the magazine «Mèla» (1976/1981) and published multiples, artist’s books, and ephemera by other artists, founding Exempla Editions with Mario Mariotti and Claudio Parmiggiani in 1970 (with which he had already published his own multiples and books since 1967), and the record label Recorthings in 1975. This sensitivity toward alternative publishing realities, politically marginal to the institution, emerged in the exhibition he curated at Zona in 1975, “Small Press Scene,” and was applied to the creation of a personal archive composed of thousands of documents “concerning any artistic marginal practice from the 1960s up to the present day,” a project that is an integral part of his artistic practice as a “great collective and personal diary” on the cultural identity of the second half of the twentieth century. His research has recently been presented at the MAXXI in Rome (Maurizio Nannucci. “Where to start from,” 2015), at the Museion in Bolzano, and at the Museo Marino Marini in Florence (Maurizio Nannucci. “Top Hundred,” 2015–2016).

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