- SANDRO CHIA ARTWORKS

- SANDRO CHIA PAINTER

Sandro Chia, pseudonym of Alexander Coticchia it's a painter It is Italian sculptor. He was born in Florence in 1946 and is one of the main exponents of the Italian transavant-garde together with Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladin, Nicola DeMaria and Enzo Cucchi.

It is formed atart Institute and atAcademy of Fine Arts in Florence where he graduated in 1969. After graduating he began to travel throughout Europe, India and Turkey until he settled in Rome in 1970.

In the same year, he began to exhibit in Rome and in Europe, gradually moving away from theconceptual art towards one style more figurative until arriving at Transavant-garde, art movement founded by Achille Bonito Oliva.

In 1980 he exhibited at the section Open 80 at the Venice Biennial together with the other representatives of his same artistic current. In the same year he held a personal exhibition in New York where he moved, remaining there for twenty years and often alternating between short stays in Montalcino in the province of Siena. From then on he held personal exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in the most important galleries and museums at national and international level.

Sandro Chia elaborates an artistic language that strongly recalls theRenaissance art and the artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century. His art, which is inspired by the great masters of the past such as Titian, Masaccio, Tintoretto, Lotto, Michelangelo and to contemporaries Giorgio de Chirico, Fernand Lèger, Paul Cèzanne, Francis Picabia It is Marc Chagall it is pure creation of an image that exclusively reflects itself. His works they are distinguished by a strong and dynamic pictorial sign It is often populated by heroic male figures painted with full-bodied and bright colors.

In 2003, the Italian state acquired three important works for the permanent collection of Senate of the Italian Republic a Madame Palace, while in 2005, the province of Rome acquires two monumental sculptures placed in front of its headquarters in Via IV Novembre.

In 2011, a retrospective was held at the Foro Boario in Modena and at the MIC, Museum of Ceramics of Faenza. In 2012, it's the turn of the retrospective Transavant-garde a Royal Palace in Milan and in 2014 the city of Livorno commissioned him a monumental bronze sculpture to be placed in the newly restored square where the headquarters of the Sant'Anna Research Center are located.

Sandro Chia now lives between Miami, Rome and his Castello Romitorio wine estate in Montalcino, where he also follows the production of prestigious wines.