Renzo Nucara (Crema 1955) graduated from the Bergamo Art School in 1973. He attended the Brera Academy in Milan. His first personal exhibition dates back to 1977 at the Galleria Ticino in Milan.
In the 1980s, his work revolved around the theme of the Diary. Emotions, sensations, ‘facts of the day’ are written straight onto the canvas. They are sentences that are often backwards or fragmented, because they are deliberately placed in the space between the explicit and the hidden, between what they want to reveal and what they prefer to keep quiet.
In the following years, writing becomes a sign, the canvas gives way to three-dimensionality, new materials come into play – woods, found objects, transparent films – with which he creates the Memory Boxes, preferring an approach between the ironic and the playful.
He returns to two-dimensionality with the finds that characterize his artistic production of the 90s. They are shapes that refer to the idea of ​​an object already corroded by time, first made in papier-mâché and foam rubber, then in plastic material on which layers of color thicken, granules, pigments, elements of the natural world.
In 1993, together with five other artists, he founded the Cracking Art group. The material of choice is plastic, which also becomes a vehicle for ecological and social commitment. He participates with the group in the 49th Venice Biennale with the Sos World installation: more than a thousand recycled and golden plastic turtles that occupy the gardens around the historic pavilions. He returns to the Biennale, again with the Group, in 2011 and 2013.
On an individual level, he continues his artistic research, focused in the early 2000s on Resinfilm, layering of resins, pigments, natural and artificial objects, matrix of the subsequent series in plexiglas Stratofilm, Shape and Lighting shape.
In recent times he has entered the world of Cryptoart, creating NFT (non-fungible token) works, which attest to its digital ownership.