Nino Mustica (Adrano, 1946 – Milan, 2018) was an Italian painter and sculptor who, from the mid-1990s onwards, brought painting beyond the surface, transforming gesture and colour into three-dimensional, plastic and architectural forms. Through the use of new technologies, his research gave body to a continuous metamorphosis of the image, suspended between painting, sculpture and space: an “infinite form” fixed at the very moment of its transformation.

Mustica taught at the Istituto Statale d’Arte di Catania, the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera di Milano, the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest and the Politecnico di Milano. His work has been presented in Italy and abroad in numerous venues and exhibition contexts, including: 9th Street Gallery, New York (1981); Galleria Hete A.M. Hünermann, Düsseldorf (1990); Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (1990); Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (1994); Gibellina and Budapest (1999); Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa – Palazzetto Tito, Venezia (2000); Beijing International Art Biennale (2005); Gaya Art Space, Ubud, Bali (2007); Biennale di Architettura di Venezia, Arsenale (2010); Musei di Nervi – Galleria d’Arte Moderna / Villa Saluzzo Serra, Genova (2013); Royal Festival Hall / Southbank Centre, London (2014).

The Archivio Nino Mustica was established to preserve and promote knowledge of the artist’s work and artistic-cultural legacy.