Nanda Vigo
Italy — b. 1936 — d. 2020
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Nanda Vigo
Biography
Nanda Vigo born in Milan in 1936. Graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, she opened her own studio in Milan in 1959 and began exhibiting in galleries and museums in Europe and Italy. She participates in numerous events such as the XIII Triennale of Milan in 1964, the XV Triennale of Milan in 1983 or the Venice Biennale in 1982.
She won prestigious awards such as the price of Industrial Design in New York in 1974 for the Golden Gate lamp, Price Saint-Gobain Industrial Design at Milan in 1976 or the price for the exhibition Koiné Piero Manzoni in Milan in 1998 in Verona...
Nanda Vigo born in Milan in 1936. Graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, she opened her own studio in Milan in 1959 and began exhibiting in galleries and museums in Europe and Italy. She participates in numerous events such as the XIII Triennale of Milan in 1964, the XV Triennale of Milan in 1983 or the Venice Biennale in 1982.
She won prestigious awards such as the price of Industrial Design in New York in 1974 for the Golden Gate lamp, Price Saint-Gobain Industrial Design at Milan in 1976 or the price for the exhibition Koiné Piero Manzoni in Milan in 1998 in Verona.
In the 1960s, she began to formulate a theory called «Chronotopy space / time» which is to formalize an environment through the use of light by the use of materials mainly from industrial production as lenses, mirrors , neon …
Through this new way of producing, she designs ds parts that are designed to stimulate the senses of users.
Nanda Vigo has also collaborated with the great figures of Design as Gio Ponti, Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni yet.