Enzo Cucchi

Enzo Cucchi emerged as one of the leading figures of the Italian Trans-avanguardia movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a reaction against the conceptual and minimal art that had dominated the previous decade. Born in Morro d'Alba in the Marche region of Italy, Cucchi brought a deeply personal and expressionistic approach to painting that drew on Italian cultural memory, Catholic imagery, and the rural landscape of his childhood. Cucchi's work is characterized by its…