Sandro Chia is one of the central figures of the Italian Transavanguardia. Born in Florence in 1946, he helped bring painting, figuration, myth and expressive color back into contemporary art after the dominance of Conceptual Art, Minimalism and Arte Povera.
This tag brings together articles on Chia’s work, his role in Italian postmodern painting, and his connection to artists such as Sandro Chia Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria and Mimmo Paladino. Rather than treating Chia as a simple painter of myths and figures, these texts read his work as a theatrical return to painting, where the body becomes image, performance and historical quotation.
L'ozio di Sisifo – Sandro Chia How Transavanguardia turned the return to painting into a critical, visual, and market strategy for the 1980s. Transavanguardia is often
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Sandro Chia - Discussione su l’arte e la pittura (Discussion on Art and Painting), 1999 How Sandro Chia turned myth, color and the human figure into a postmodern stage for painting after Conceptual Art. Sandro
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Francesco Clemente - Summer Self II - 2011 - courtesy Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Roma How Francesco Clemente turned painting into a space of fragmented identity, spiritual tension and postmodern self-questioning. Francesco Clemente is often
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