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MAIN SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1977
Enzo Cucchi. Ritratto di casa, Incontri Internazionali d´Arte, Palazzo Taverna, Roma
Montesicuro Cucchi Enzo giù, Luigi de Ambrogi Galleria, Milano
Mare Mediterraneo, Giuliana de Crescenzo Galleria, Roma
1978
Alla lontana alla francese, Galleria Giuliana spaced out Crescenzo, Roma
Tre o quattro artisti secchi, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena. Catalogo
1979
La cero azzurra, Galleria Mario Diacono, Bologna. Catalogo
La pianura bussa, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena
Sul marciapiede, comedian la festa dei cani, Galleria Tucci Russo, Torino
1980
Duetto (con Mario Passi), A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna, Roma. Catalogo
Enzo Cucchi: Uomini picture una donna al tavolo, Galleria Dell´Oca, Roma
Enzo Cucchi: Cinque monti sono santi, Paul Maenz Galerie, Cologne
1981
Diciannove disegni, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena. Catalogo
Enzo Cucchi, Heading Sperone Westwater Fischer, Novel York
Enzo Cucchi, Neue Bilder, Galerie Philosopher Bischofberger, Zurich
Enzo Cucchi, Galleria Mario Diacono, Rome. Catalogo
Enzo Cucchi, Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Roma
Enzo Cucchi, Viaggio delle lune/Reise der Monde, Paul Maenz Galerie, Cologne; Art&Project, Amsterdam. Catalogo
1982
Scultura andata, scultura storna (with Sandro Chia), Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena. Catalogo
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Cucchi
Rizzoli
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Rizzoli, Bordeau, Andre Soriano
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Rizzoli, Pedretti, Carlo Pedretti
Most of Leonardo da Vinci's architectural projects were never constructed, and practically nothing remains of the few that were realized. Pedretti's close examination of sketches from the Codex Continue reading »
Rizzoli, Daval, Jean Luc Daval
A feast for the eye, this technical survey shows how oil painting techniques were adapted to artists' changing needs to represent light, color, space and emotion. The album is so lovely to look at, Continue reading »
Rizzoli, Roche, Serge Roche
This import is an ""enlarged edition'' of a 1956 French title, published here now with the original black-and-white photos, most of which are of lackluster quality. The excellent color plates, Continue reading »
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Enzo Cucchi
In the catalogue essay for this exhibition, Amnon Barzel suggests a comparison between Enzo Cucchi and halo Calvino. It is certainly not the central point of his text, nor the only interpretive route to be taken, and yet this comparison can become a key to the entire show, particularly if one bolsters Barzel’s intuition with a reading of Calvino’s posthumously published Lezioni americane. Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio (American lessons. Six memos for the next millenium, 1988). In one lecture particularly, which is presented as an homage to the concept of lightness in art, Calvino discusses Lucretius’ De rerum natura, calling it “the first great work in which consciousness of the world turns into the dissolution of the world’s solidity.” Cucchi, too, knows Lucretius, writing of him, “I have the feeling that he resides within things: when he speaks of a stone, he resides within the stone.”
This show really seems to be the De rerum natura of Enzo Cucchi. It is about the will to restore meaning and value, not only to art, but to existence itself. It is the aspiration of the artist to convince us of the truth and of the reality of things, to touch the profound reasons for life, to provoke the terrible won