About Enzo Cucchi

  • Biography

    Enzo Cucchi (born 14 November 1949) is an Italian painter. A native of Morro d'Alba, province of Ancona, he was a key member of the Italian Transavanguardia movement, along with his countrymen Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, Nicola De Maria and Sandro Chia. The movement was at its peak during the 1980s and was part of a wider movement of Neo-Expressionists painters around the world.

    Cucchi's first major Retrospective was held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 1986 and his works are held in numerous museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Tate, London and the Art Institute of Chicago.

    Cucchi lives and works in Rome and Ancona.

    Enzo Cucchi was born in 1949 in Morro d‘Alba, a fa...

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