Critical anthology
“At night, Nuvolo invents a country of the mind, destined to be populated by ghosts that will become every day, friendly, popular, and plausible writings. “
“[…] Burri’s lunar howl was answered with a shower of festive confetti. “
▼ C. Cagli, Nuvolo, exhibition brochure, Galleria Numero, Florence, 1955
“[…] serotipia is to be understood as painting by the means of silkscreen, or silkscreen, but conducted within the limits of the unique and unrepeatable specimen.”
“Personally, I consider it an adventure, a rare fortune, to have been able to witness such an unexpected birth of his vocation”
▼ E. Villa, Nuvolo, exhibition brochure, Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, 1958
“It is a contribution both personal and, once recognised, revealing far beyond the scope of Nuvolo’s own work where it is made.”
“Painting not beyond the real therefore, but as much as possible within the real.”
▼ A. Ascani, Nuvolo, “Arte Oggi”, year III, n.10, 1961
“Because I have gone mad for this operation, for this life of painting […], and which Nuvolo vivified among the very first.”
“Now we can better understand, as new phases of Nuvolo’s work unfold, how the “celato” of this “nuntius” is an attitude to safeguard the authenticity of each message to be conveyed […].”
“It therefore became clear again how the young Nuvolo’s action had already strongly distinguished itself by the 1950s in highly qualified artistic circles.”
“He is convinced of the importance of free and personal doing, where work becomes an existential “trace”, but he already suffers from a thought that raises doubts about the spontaneous act.”
▼ G. Celant, Nuvolo and Post-War Materiality 1950-1965, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2018
“When Andy Warhol started using screen printing […] Nuvolo has more than ten years of experience in the screen printing technique applied to his own painting.”
▼ B. Corà, Melani | Nuvolo tra arte e scienza, exhibition catalogue, Cassino, 2022
