Project Description

About

Enzo Cucchi was born in 1949 in Morro d‘Alba, in the province of Ancona, Italy, and is considered by many to be the most visionary among the so-called ‘Transavanguardia’ artists.  He moved to Rome in the 1970s where his highly original work stood out in a scene dominated by conceptual art; by the 1980s Cucchi had become an internationally renowned artist.

Cucchi’s work has been exhibited worldwide at some of the most important galleries and museums including: Basel Kunsthalle; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo.

In addition to the many international exhibitions of his paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramic works, the artist has made large outdoor sculptures for the Brueglinger Park in Basel (1984), and the Louisiana Museum, Denmark (1985), a fountain for the garden of the Museo d’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (1988) and the Fontana d‘Italia at York University in Toronto, Canada. In the 1990s, he collaborated with architect Mario Botta on the design of the stunning Santa Maria deli Angeli Chapel on Monte Tamaro in Switzerland. Cucchi has also designed costumes and sets for numerous opera productions.

Work

Selected Exhibitions

  • 1977 Galleria Luigi de Ambrogi, Milan, Italy
  • 1977 Incontri Internazionali d’Arte, Palazzo Taverna, Rome, Italy
  • 1978 Galleria Giuliana de Crescenzo, Rome, Italy
  • 1978 Galleria Emilio Mazzoli in Modena, Italy
  • 1979 XV Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
  • 1979 Galleria Mario Diacono, Bologna, Italy
  • 1979 Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
  • 1979 Galleria Tucci Russo, Turin, Italy
  • 1980 Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
  • 1980 XXXIX Biennale di Venezia, Italy
  • 1980 XIe Biennale de Paris, France
  • 1981 Gallery Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
  • 1981 Galleria Mario Diacono, Rome, Italy
  • 1981 Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
  • 1981 Art and Project, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1981 Sperone Westwater Fischer Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1981 Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1982 Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
  • 1982 Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
  • 1982 Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
  • 1982 Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
  • 1983 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1983 Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1983 Galerie Buchmann, St Gallen, Switzerland
  • 1983 Galerie Schellmann and Kluser, Munich, Germany
  • 1983 Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1983 Gallerie Anna d´Ascanio, Rome, Italy
  • 1984 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
  • 1984 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1984 Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1984 Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1984 Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1984 Galleria Mario Diacono, Rome, Italy
  • 1984 Anthony d´Offay Gallery, London, England
  • 1985 Galerie Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris, France
  • 1985 Louisiana Museum of Moderne Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
  • 1985 Galleri Zero, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 1985 Fundaciòn Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain
  • 1985 Musèe d´Art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
  • 1985 Galleri Wallner, Malmo, Sweden
  • 1986 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
  • 1986 Musèe national d´art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  • 1986 Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
  • 1987 Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 1987 Musèe de la Ville de Nice, Nice, France
  • 1987 Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany
  • 1987 Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
  • 1987 Beyeler Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
  • 1988 Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1988 Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
  • 1989 Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany
  • 1989 Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
  • 1989 Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1989 Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
  • 1989 Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
  • 1989 Horta Museum, Brussels, Belgium
  • 1989 Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1989 Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada
  • 1989 Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
  • 1989 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1989 Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
  • 1989 Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
  • 1990 Palazzina dei Giardini Pubblici, Modena, Italy
  • 1990 Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
  • 1990 Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
  • 1990 Galleria Il Segno, Rome, Italy
  • 1990 Mikkola Rislakki Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
  • 1991 Fundacio Juan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
  • 1991 Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
  • 1991 Moderna Gallerija, Ljublijana, Slovenia
  • 1992 Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
  • 1992 Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
  • 1993 Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
  • 1993 Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
  • 1993 Museo Storico della Liberazione di Roma, Rome, Italy
  • 1993 Galerie Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris, France
  • 1994 Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary
  • 1994 Museo Cantonale d´Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
  • 1994 Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1994 Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
  • 1994 Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1995 Obalne Galerije, Pirano, Slovenia
  • 1995 Galleria Carlo Virgilio, Rome, Italy
  • 1995 Sara Hildènin Taidemuseo, Tampere, Finland
  • 1995 Museo di Palazzo Reale Arengario, Milan, Italy
  • 1995 Nicosia Municipal Arts Center, Nicosia, Cyprus
  • 1995 Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
  • 1995 Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1996 Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Japan
  • 1996 Fukuyama Museum of Art, Japan
  • 1996 Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan
  • 1996 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1996 Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1996 Gezira Arts Center Zamalek, Egypt
  • 1996 Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna, Italy
  • 1996 Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
  • 1996 Galerie Gana Beaubourg, Paris, France
  • 1997 Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany
  • 1997 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1997 Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1997 Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 1998 Enzo Cucchi, Galleria Nazionale d´Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
  • 1998 Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto, Portugal
  • 1999 Mosaico di Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
  • 2000 Mosaico nella stazione Termini, Roma, Italy
  • 2000 Galleria Poggiali e Forconi, Florence, Italy
  • 2000 Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2000 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
  • 2000 Galleria Comunale d´Arte Moderne e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
  • 2000 Galleria Nazionale d´Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
  • 2001 Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
  • 2001 Paolo Curti Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy
  • 2001 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2002 Museo Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
  • 2002 Galleria Fernando Latorre, Zaragoza, Spain
  • 2002 Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
  • 2003 Galleria Valentina Bonomo Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
  • 2003 Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2003 Galleria Poggiali e Forconi, Florence, Italy
  • 2004 Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2004 Paolo Curti / Annamaria Gambuzzi and Co, Milan, Italy
  • 2005 Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
  • 2005 Centro Produzione Arte, Comune di Firenze, Florence, Italy
  • 2006 Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, France
  • 2006 Academie de France a Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
  • 2006 Philips de Pury and Company, New York, USA
  • 2007 Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
  • 2007 Museo Correr, Venezia, Italy
  • 2009 Espoo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), Esbo, Finland
  • 2015 Meraviglia: Sandro Chia / Enzo Cucchi / Michael Warren, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
  • 2020 Menti Curiose: Enzo Cucchi / George Warren, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland