Transavantgarde

Transavantgarde, also Italian Transavanguardia (beyond the avant-garde ), defined in the later stage as Arte Cifra, refers to a style of post-modernism in the mid- 1970s, mainly from the Italian Arte Povera emerged.

Etymology

The term " Transavanguardia " was coined in 1979 by the Roman art critic Achille Bonito Oliva for a group of Italian painters. Leading the way was the Greek artist Jannis Kounellis. One of the main representatives of the Transavanguardia include Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Fernando Leal Audirac, Nicola de Maria, Carlo Maria Mariani and Mimmo Paladino. Due to the prone symbol encryption ( encryption ) and alienation of the visual language of art historian Wolfgang Max Faust called this group of artists as Arte Cifra.

Stylistic Features

The Transavantgarde characterized by a subjective eclecticism, where the artists turned towards a classical imagery as panel painting. In subject and figuration showed a preference for mythological legends figures of antiquity ( for example, medusas, minotaurs or Cyclops ) and heroic scenarios in expressive color. Here, the artist served in their reception - especially Sandro Chia in the sculptural field - a partly ironic, kitschy and enigmatically fragmentary iconography; they quoted historical sources and archaic artifacts and picked up the Classic back to finish by stressing the subsequent cultural tradition of the Roman Occident art historical digression. Achille Bonito Oliva said: "The images transavangard make puzzles and solution at the same time dar. The Transavantgarde allowed the art movement in all directions, including the past. "

As a spontaneous, subjective- emotional opposite direction to the static, " objectively " rational claim of Minimal Art and Conceptual Art can be the Transavantgarde with the movements of the American New Image Painting, with in Germany with the " violent " Painting the New Wild and in France Compare the figuration Libre.