Nanda Vigo Profile Mittelleuropean born in Milan, graduate at Politecnique in Lausanne, trayng in S. Francisco. She opened her own atelier in Milan in '59, and start to exhibit in many galleries and Museums in Europe and in Italy. She went towards the 60's, with the support of experience obtained as an architect and designer, at formulating a cronotopical theory space/time completely original and autonomous in art. Since than, her presence has been constant in the mids of the most advanced aesthetical research (Zero Group, Aktuel Group, Light und Bewegung) with the precise intent of probing, deepening, the possibilities of sensorial stimuli obtained by the use of materials which are typical of industry, such as glass, mirrors, neon light organized in a uniting and co-involving spatiality.
She collaborate with Gio Ponti, Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni. 1964 Milano XIII Triennale; 1983 Milano XV Triennale; 1982 Venezia 40a Biennale. Awards: 1971 New York Award of Industrial Design; 1976 Milano 1� Award S. Gobain for Industrial Design. She has taught the Politechnique Institute of Lausanna, to the Accademy of Macerata, and to the European Institute of the Design of Milano. 1999 Master Lightin Desig Accademy of Brera, Milano. Atelier in Milan, she lives in East Africa. She recently designed the Nianda table for Gallotti & Radice.
Gallotti & Radice designs by Nanda Vigo: Nianda.
Source: Gallotti & Radice