nannetti.! Sternenoffizier

Resembling an open-air book, the graffiti by Fernando Oreste Nannetti (1927-1994) reveal an astounding world between dream and reality, science and imagination.  Fernando Oreste Nannetti was the author of a written work that he scratched onto the façades of the Ospedale psichiatrico in Volterra, Italy, in which he was interned. Nannetti talked to nobody, but claimed, however, to sense electromagnetic waves, and noted the messages he received via telepathy on a daily basis. From activity over a total of eight years, between 1959 and 1961 and then between 1968 and 1973, the monumental work arose: with its graphic form reminiscent of Etruscan script, it is 70 meters long and covers several walls of the institution’s inner courtyard. A total of 23 large-format photographs presented the impressive work by Fernando Oreste Nannetti.  These were taken in 1979 by Pier Nello Manoni, before weathering began to accelerate on the original work, which is almost vanished today.

museum gugging displayed the first comprehensive retrospective on the creativity of the artist Fernando Oreste Nannetti. A masterly oeuvre, which was presented for the first time in Austria with the exhibition nannetti.! sternenoffizier.

The exhibition was taken on by the Collection de I’Art Brut, Lausanne.

Artist: Fernando Oreste Nannetti, Photographers: Mario del Curto, Pier Nello Manoni.