Museion presents
 Maurizio Nannucci, “Top Hundred”

Top Hundred is a project by Maurizio Nannucci that presents a hundred works selected from artists' multiples, publications, books and records, as well as videos, magazines, documents and ephemera belonging to a hundred leading artists on the international scene from the 1960s to the present, from the Zona Archives collection he started in 1967.

The exhibition aims to offer a cross-cutting panorama in which the biographic aspect of Nannucci's research coincides with the historical presentation of various artistic practices. It reflects on the concept of the reproducibility of the artwork, which, freed from its aura of uniqueness and singularity, can circulate more freely, more democratically.
Top Hundred documents various art movements, from Concrete Poetry to Fluxus, to Conceptual art, experimental and multimedia works and the most recent directions emerging in the new millennium.
It therefore offers a guide to the art of the last 50 years, revealing the richly varied and innovative nature of its many strands (ramifications?). In order to display more than 100 artists' multiples, books and records in Museion's studio collection venue, Nannucci has designed an original layout that features a number of site-specific neon, sound and video installations by other artists.

The show presents items, multiples, documents by Vito Acconci / Saadane Afif / Vincenzo Agnetti / Laurie Anderson / Carl Andre / Archigram / John Armleder & Ecart / Art & Language / Avalanche / John Baldessari / Robert Barry / Base progetti per l’arte / Joseph Beuys / Pierre Bismuth / Bit / Alighiero Boetti / George Brecht / AA Bronson & General Idea / James Lee Byars / Chris Burden / Daniel Buren / John Cage / Maurizio Cattelan & Permanent Food / Christo / Claude Closky / Gianni Colombo / Concrete Poetry / Martin Creed / Guy Debord & Internationale Situationniste / Herman de Vries / Antonio Dias / Nico Dockx / Brian Eno / Cerith Wyn Evans / VALIE EXPORT / Hans Peter Feldmann / Robert Filliou / Ian Hamilton Finlay / Henry Flint / Lucio Fontana / Terry Fox / Marco Fusinato & John Nixon / Katharina Fritsch / Rainer Ganahl / Liam Gillick / Global Tool / John Giorno / Piero Golia / Felix Gonzales Torres / Dan Graham / Rodney Graham / Guerrilla Girls / Hans Haacke / Damien Hirst / Jenny Holzer / Pierre Huyghe / Dorothy Iannone / Isidore Isou / Christian Jankowski / Allan Kaprow / Martin Kippenberger / Peter Kogler / Koo Jeong-a / Joseph Kosuth / Jannis Kounellis / Ferdinand Kriwet / Barbara Kruger / Yayoi Kusama / Robert Lax / Le point d’ironie / Sherry Levine / Sol Lewitt / Roy Lichtenstein / Richard Long / Francesco Lo Savio / George Maciunas & Fluxus / Piero Manzoni / Christian Marclay / Gordon Matta-Clark / Allan McCollum / Cildo Meireles / Méla / Gustav Metzger / Maurizio Mochetti / Jonathan Monk / Olivier Mosset / Matt Mullican / Antoni Muntadas / Maurizio Nannucci / Bruce Nauman / Carsten Nicolai / Olaf Nicolai / Claes Oldenburg / Yoko Ono / Gabriel Orozco / Ou / Giulio Paolini / Philippe Parreno / Richard Prince / Markus Raetz / Recorthings / Tobias Rehberger / Pipilotti Rist / Gerwald Rockenschaub / Dieter Roth / Allen Ruppersberg / Ed Ruscha / Seth Siegelaub / Gianni Emilio Simonetti / Something Else Press / SMS / Michael Snow / Daniel Spoerri / Spur / The Fox / Rirkrit Tiravanija / Niele Toroni / Franco Vaccari / Ben Vautier / Bill Viola / Wolf Vostell / Andy Warhol / Lawrence Weiner / Franz West / Emmett Williams / Christopher Wool / Heimo Zobernig / Zona…

Maurizio Nannucci (Firenze,1939), is one of the contemporary Italian artists best known on the international scene. Since the mid 1960s he has been exploring the complex relationships between art, language and image, forging text-based practices and conceptual works that use various means: neon, photography, video, sound, publications and artists' books. 1967 saw his first neon texts, which multiplied the levels of meaning in his work and gave rise to a new perception of architectural space. His works have been presented in more than 300 international museums and events - from the Venice Biennale to Documenta in Kassel – and he currently has a solo show on at the MAXXI in Roma (till 18/10/15). Various works of his are in the Museion collection. In parallel to his artistic career Nannucci has also been a prolific publisher since the 1960s. Under the imprint Exempla, and now Zona Archives and Recorthings, he produces artists' books and records, multiples and documents by other artists, many of whom are colleagues who have helped establish the idea of the reproducibility of the work of art. Nannucci has also founded numerous non-profit initiatives, like Zona (1974/1985), Zonaradio (1982…), and Base progetti per l’arte (1998…), and curated various exhibitions and presentations of material from Zona Archives like: Small Press Scene, Zona, Florence (1975); Artists’ Books / Cento Libri d’Artista Cento, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (1978); Cent livres d’artistes italiens, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (1981); Foné, la voce e la traccia, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1984); A.B. Art in Bookform, Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyvaskyla (1987); Discothèque, Maison du Livre de l'lmage et du Son, Villeurbanne (1989); Zonaradio / Keeping Time, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Bourges (1995); Bookmakers, Limoges (1995); Murs du son, Villa Arson, Nice (1995); Fonoteca, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena (1998) and Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City (2000).

Top Hundred is presented in collaboration with the Marino Marini Museum of Florence, which will host the show in early 2016. It is accompanied by a catalogue with texts by Andreas Hapkemeyer, Maurizio Nannucci, Letizia Ragaglia and Alberto Salvadori.

Museion presents 
Maurizio Nannucci. “Top Hundred”
 18/09/2015 -07/09/2015

curated by Andreas Hapkemeyer


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