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Enzo Cucchi was born in 1949 in Morro d‘Alba, a farming village in the province of Ancona in central Italy. As an [[autodidacticism|autodidactic]] painter Cucchi was lauded in his early years even though he was more interested in poetry. He frequently visited poet Mino De Angelis, who was in charge of the magazine ''Tau''. Through ''La Nuova Foglio di Macerata'', a small publishing house, he met with art critic [[Achille Bonito Oliva]], an important figure in the artist's prospective career. In its catalogues ''La Nuova Foglio di Macerata'' published writings of artists such as Cucchi's ''Il veleno è stato sollevato e trasportato!'' in 1976. Frequent trips to Rome in the mid-seventies revived Cucchi's interest in visual arts. He moved to Rome, temporarily abandoned poetry and dedicated himself exclusively to the visual arts. Here Cucchi met with different artists such as Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino and Nicola de Maria with whom he began to work in close contact and to establish dialectical and intellectual dialogues.

 

 

The members of the Transavanguardia-group have diverse working methods. Their identity as a group is not dependent on rules or any binding language of expression, but they share a preference for motifs gathered from imaginable reality and the free use of past and present. Cucchi uses forms suggestive of the landscape, legends and traditions of his home-region. He shows nature, history and culture in a playful relationship with our technical world, using ''symbols'' like a train or an ocean-liner and employing colour in terms of idea, expansion and motion rather than for pictorial sensation. His artwork is often accompanied by poetic texts some of which have been published.

 

== Selected exhibitions==

*BIASA ArtSpace, Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia, 2010<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://biasagroup.com/exhibition/eight-graphic-works-enzo-cucchi/|title=Eight Graphic Works - Enzo Cucchi|website=Biasa|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-31}}</ref>

*EMMA, Espoon Kaupunki, Finland, 2009

*Incontri Internazionali d‘Arte, Roma, 1977

 

* {{cite book | author=Diane Waldman | title=Enzo Cucchi | url=https://archive.org/details/enzocucchi00wald | location=New York | publisher=Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Rizzoli | year=1986 }}

* {{cite book | author=Martin Schwander | title=Enzo Cucchi. Scultura | location=Brussels and Munich | publisher=Zaira Mis & Bernd Klüser | year=1988 }}

* {{cite book | author=Zaira Mis | title=Enzo Cucchi. Idoli | location=Brussels | publisher=Artiscope | year=1993 }}

* {{cite book | author=Guy Gilsoul and Patrick Floorizone | title=Cucchi, Ensor/Enzo | location=Brussels | publisher=Artiscope | year=1999 }}

 

 

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[[Category:Postmodern artists]]

[[Category:Transavanguardia]]