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Biography
An Italian painter, designer and sculptor, Chia travelled all over Europe and India after finishing his studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1969. In 1970, he moved to Rome and, a year later, began the kind of work that he would classify as "conceptual mythical art"'. At the end of the 70s, he focused above all on painting and rapidly established himself, together with Clemente, Cucchi and Paladino, as one of the major Italian artists within the figurative painting movement, Transavanguardia. The heroic masculine figure imbued with an enigmatic sense of mission is one of the themes that Chia explores not only in his drawings and engravings, but also in his bronze casts with, at times, a strong chromatic exuberance. In 1982, he took part in Documenta 7 in Kassel and, in 1984, he held his first one-man show, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 1993, he had a retrospective at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin. He has been involved in numerous one-man shows and collective exhibitions in America, Japan and Europe.
Exhibitions
Sandro Chia Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), The Netherlands 01-04-1983 ~ 31-05-1983
Sandro Chia: Paintings 1976-1983 Kestner-Gessellschaft, Germany 01-12-1983 ~ 29-02-1984
Grande Escala - Colecção Berardo Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 09-10-2004 ~ 18-03-2005
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Bibliography
Christie's, Contemporary Art (Part II), 1993 Published by Christie's
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Grande Escala - The Berardo Collection, 2004 Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas ISBN 972890200X
Sandro Chia, 1983 Published by Stedelijk Museum
Sandro Chia: Paintings 1976-1983, 1983 Published by Kestner-Gessellschaft
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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