Enzo Cucchi

Enzo Cucchi ( born November 14, 1949 in Morro d' Alba, Province of Ancona ) is a contemporary Italian painter and object artist. He is one next to Sandro Chia, Horacio de Sosa Cordero, Francesco Clemente and Mimmo Paladino of the main representatives of the Italian Trans- avant-garde.

The artist lives and works in Rome and Ancona.

Life and work

Enzo Cucchi grew up in the big city with various relatives. As a teenager, he left the school in 1965, he worked as an assistant at a book and picture restorer in Florence. This activity aroused everyone's interest in the art and so he taught himself, influenced by daily Retuschierhandwerk, autodidactic different, traditional painting techniques under. His first works were fast Notable successes and won numerous awards, but the interest in painting left again soon after and Cucchi turned to the emerging just in Italy neoavantgardistischen poetry. From 1966 to 1968 he worked as a land surveyor.

In the mid-1970s Cucchi moved to Rome, where he again began to paint. During this time he first met fellow artists Sandro Chia and Francesco Clemente, who pursued a similar, supported by poetry, artistic direction. In the following exhibitions Cucchi presented mainly large scale mixing techniques in oil. The first solo exhibition followed in 1977 in Milan.

Cucchi's work that the at that time prevailing, cool and rational Postminimalism ran counter entirely by its classical style of painting and their archaic emotional imagery, were proclaimed by the art critics, notably the Biennale organizers Achille Bonito Oliva, as a " new, the avant-garde beyond style " and at the same time occupied with the neologism created by Oliva Transavanguardia. At the invitation of the 39th Biennale Board of Trustees under the guiding hand Olivas followed in 1980, finally, the participation Cucchi at the Aperto 80 in Venice. In the aftermath Cucchi experimented with the formats of his works, and came partly to narrow dimensions, which dealt with the iconography of old scripts and incunabula. From 1982 Cucchi finally found the plastic.

In the following years he worked at the theater in the design of numerous stage sets: for example, designs were created for the Rossini -enactment at the Opera Festival in Pesaro (1982 ) for which Pentesilea von Kleist (1986 ) or for Puccini's Tosca at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (1990). In recent years, moreover, was a closer cooperation with the designer Ettore Sottsass.

Exhibitions / individual - and group exhibitions

  • 2012: Maestro Enzo Cucchi - Raab Galerie Berlin
  • 1999: Enzo Cucchi - mountains, people, light Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
  • 1998: National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome
  • 1993: Castello di Rivoli, Turin
  • 1992: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
  • 1986: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  • 1985: Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf
  • 1982: Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich
  • 1982: documenta 7, Kassel
  • 2007: Museo Correr, Venice; Ca Pesaro, Venice; GAMeC - Galleria d' Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo
  • 2007: Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
  • 2006: Musée d' Art moderne de Saint -Etienne, Saint -Etienne
  • 2005: Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
  • 2004: Secco Rizziero Arte, Pescara; Galleria Gioacchini, Ancona
  • 2003: Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
  • 2002: Centro -Museo Vasco ARTIUM de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria -Gasteiz
  • 2000: Renate Schroeder Gallery, Moenchengladbach
  • 1984: Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
  • 1983: Un ' imagine oscura, Museum Folkwang, Essen
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