Sandro Chia (1946)

Italian painter who helped launch the Transavantgarde movement in 1979, bringing bold figuration back to contemporary art.

ABOUT

Sandro Chia (born 20 April 1946) is an Italian painter and sculptor. 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. == Life == Chia was born in Florence, in Tuscany in central Italy, on 20 April 1946. He studied at the Istituto d'Arte di Firenze from 1962 to 1967, and then, until 1969,…

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NOTABLE WORKS

Senza titolo 1977 · Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Il demone della musica 1977 · Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Attrazione sonnolenta 1978 · Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Paura nel bosco 1978 · Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen In acqua strana e cupa, se brilla un punto bianco, se salta una pupa, al volo suo m'affianco 1979 · Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Non è da te essere in ballo, divorzia ! 1979 · Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

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INFLUENCES

Influenced by

Giorgio de ChiricoMetaphysical Painting

Influenced

Julian SchnabelNeo-Expressionism