Learning more about the wonderful #nandavigo “queen of the light” who is subject of a long overdue retrospective at Bordeaux’s Museum of Decorative Arts and Design. Vigo was a key part of the Zero group of artists who pioneered the use of light and motion as materials. But while she exhibited in Italy almost every year from the ’60s until she died, and moved in an influential circle that included Gio Ponti, Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni (with whom she lived until his early death) she has remained in the shadow of her male contemporaries and was little known outside of design circles until now. In this week’s design special @bayasimons finds out more about the artist, designer, architect and pioneer via @valeriesadoun - the photographer who captured many of Vigo’s installations and has become an champion of the creator in the years following her death. Thank you Valerie for bringing the show to my attention. Another example of why it can be very useful to slide into the old dm...