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Copyright the artist | | | Cucchi, Enzo (1950 - ) Italy
Transporto di Roma, Cavalli, Cammelli, Statue e Leoni, 1984
Oil on canvas; 300 x 390 cm Transvanguardia
UID 102-148
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Biography
Italian painter, designer and sculptor, began exhibiting his work in 1971, gaining a reputation as a figurative painter in the Italian Transavanguardia group together with Chia, Clemente and Paladino. His paintings consist, essentially, of simple, economical images with luminous primary or secondary colours. The flat, compressed image of space in his early painting came to be replaced by profound illusions of cavernous space. These are, at times, enriched by other materials such as iron, neon or burnt wood. In 1982 and 1987, he took part in "documenta" 7 and 8 in Kassel and, in 1986, he had his first major retrospective at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris, as well as a one-man show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Exhibitions
Grande Escala - Colecção Berardo Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 09-10-2004 ~ 18-03-2005
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Face - a - Face Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 02-10-2001 ~ 30-04-2001
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Observers Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 14-02-2011 ~ 29-05-2011
Bibliography
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
Sotheby's, Contemporary Art, Part I, London, Thursday, 2nd December 1993, lot. 53, 1993 Published by Sotheby´s
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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