Enzo Cucchi biography
Enzo Cucchi is an Italian painter, sculptor and artist. Born in Morro d'Alba on 14 November 1949. Self-taught, he took his first steps in the conceptual field until arriving at figuration, becoming one of the main exponents of the Italian Transavantgarde.
He began to exhibit in numerous galleries Italian companies including the Emilio Mazzoli gallery in Modena in 1979 and the Gian Enzo Sperone galleries in Rome and New York from 1981 to 1985. He is also present together with the other exponents of Transavantgarde, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente and Mimmo Paladino, in numerous group exhibitions at international museums, from the Kunsthalle of Basel in 1980 to the Guggenheim Museum and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1982, at the Tate Gallery in London in 1983, at the Museum Würth in Künzelsau in Germany in 1998, as well as in the most important national and international events such as the XXXIX Biennale of Venice and the XI Biennale of Paris in 1980, Westkunst in Cologne in 1981, the IV Biennale of Sidney, Documenta 7 in Kassel and Zeitgeist in Berlin in 1982.
In recent years, the artist has created four permanent works for four different cities: the mosaic for the Museum of Art of Tel Aviv, the monumental ceramic for the Ala Mazzoniana of the Termini Station in Rome, the two ceramic works for the Salvador Rosa Station, designed by Mendini, in the Naples metro and the mosaic for the hearing room of the new Palazzo di Giustizia of Pescara.
His works can be found in the major museum collections in the world and in the most prestigious national and international private collections.