Luigi Nono, a biography

The Luigi Nono Archive together with the Giorgio Cini Foundation, is organising a
photographic exhibition entitled Luigi Nono, a biography, curated by Giorgio Mastinu
and to be held in Palazzo Cini at San Vio. Thanks to the recent cataloguing and digitising
of the photographs owned by Rina Nono (the composer’s sister), the photographic
material in the Luigi Nono Archive has been enhanced by documents illustrating and
completing Nono’s biography, from his infancy to adolescence, his studies in Venice and
Padua. They feature family haunts, such as the large maternal house at Limena, trips in
the lagoon as far as Torcello, sunny days in Bassano, and the Cugnac mountains. Many
of the previously unpublished images document his experiences in the RAI Phonology
studio in Milan, his travels in Latin America, the years at the Experimentalstudio,
Freiburg, and his relations with writers, politicians, and prominent fi gures in the worlds
of theatre and art. The images thus contribute to reconstructing Nono’s artistic career
and personal story, the dates of some of his meetings and his movements, highlighting
a world of shared experiences, which was always a source of thought-provoking,
personal, artistic and social ideas.

3 – 28 June 2009

Venice, Palazzo Cini at San Vio

Inaugurazione: 3 June ore 6:00pm

Fondazione Archivio Luigi Nono ONLUS
tel/fax: +39 041 5209713
Info:info@luiginono.it