Sandro Chia
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Sandro Chia (born 20 April 1946) is an Italian painter and sculptor.[1]Template:R/superscript In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was, with Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria, and Mimmo Paladino, a principal member of the Italian Neo-Expressionist movement which was baptised Transavanguardia by Achille Bonito Oliva.[2]Template:R/superscript
Life
Chia was born in Florence, in Tuscany in central Italy, on 20 April 1946.[3]Template:R/superscript[1]Template:R/superscript[a] He studied at the Template:Ill from 1962 to 1967,[4]Template:R/superscript and then, until 1969, at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze.[1]Template:R/superscript He then travelled in Europe, in Turkey and in India.[5]Template:R/superscript[3]Template:R/superscript He settled in Rome in 1970, and began to show work in the following year.[5]Template:R/superscript[3]Template:R/superscript He spent the winter of 1980–1981 in Mönchengladbach, in Nordrhein-Westfalen in West Germany, on a study grant.[1]Template:R/superscript Later that year he moved to New York in the United States, where he lived for more than twenty years.[5]Template:R/superscript[6]Template:R/superscript In 1984–1985 he taught at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.[4]Template:R/superscript
Work
Chia's early work tended towards Conceptualism, but from the mid-1970s he began to turn towards more a figurative approach.[5]Template:R/superscript[3]Template:R/superscript In June 1979 Template:Ill showed work by Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria and Mimmo Paladino at his gallery in Cologne, in Germany.[7]Template:R/superscript In an article in Flash Art in the same year, the critic Achille Bonito Oliva characterised the group as a new art movement, which he called "Transavanguardia".[7]Template:R/superscript
His work has been exhibited in a solo or group shows in a number of museums, among them: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1983; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1984; the Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 1992; the Villa Medici in Rome in 1995; the Magazzini del Sale in Siena in 1997; the Template:Ill in Trento in 2000; Palazzo Pitti in Florence in 2002; the Duomo of Sant'Agostino in Pietrasanta in 2007; and the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome in 2009–2010.[5]Template:R/superscript He participated in the Biennale di Venezia in 1984 and 1988.[5]Template:R/superscript
Notes
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- ↑ The Enciclopedia Italiana gives a different date of birth, 26 February 1946.[4]Template:R/superscript
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References
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- ↑ a b c d Chia, Sandro. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (subscription required).
- ↑ Transavanguardia (in Italian). Enciclopedie on line. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed March 2018.
- ↑ a b c d Monica Bohm-Duchen (2003). Chia, Sandro. Grove Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers".. (subscription required).
- ↑ a b c Alexandra Andresen (2000). Chia, Sandro (in Italian). Enciclopedie Italiana, appendix VI. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed March 2018.
- ↑ a b c d e f Chìa, Sandro (in Italian). Enciclopedie on line. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed March 2018.
- ↑ [s.n.] (2012). Chia, Sandro (in Italian). Lessico del XXI Secolo. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed March 2018.
- ↑ a b Daniel Soutif (1 February 2003) Trans-Avanguardia. Artforum International. (subscription required).
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