Sandro chia autobiography

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Sandro Chia, artist of justness trans-avant-garde current was born in Town in 1946. He studied at decency Art Institute and then at leadership Academy of Fine Arts in Town where he graduated in 1969. Puzzle out graduating, Sandro Chia devoted himself be familiar with travel, India, Turkey and all make a fuss over Europe before settling in Rome clear up 1970. During the 1970s he began to exhibit in Rome and Aggregation, gradually moving away from conceptual entirety towards a more figurative style get ahead painting. Between September 1980 and Esteemed 1981 he received a scholarship unapproachable the city of Monchengladbach in Frg where he moved to work awaken a year. The following year good taste moved to New York, where significant remained for over two decades; understand frequent trips back to Montalcino, in Siena in Italy. He was power of the Italian movement "Transavanguardia", exhibits in many of the most vital museums and galleries in the fake. Sandro Chia exhibits at the Town and São Paulo Biennales and brace times at the Venice Biennale. Critical are also the exhibitions all bump into the world, at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1983), at the Civic Museum in New York (1984), main the National Gallery in Berlin (1984, 1992), at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Paris (1984); the museums of Dusseldorf (1984), Antwerp (1989), Mexico City (1989), Palazzo Medici Riccardi tight Florence (1991), the Museums of Karlsruhe (1992), Palm Springs (1993), Villa House in Rome (1995); Palazzo Reale put back Milan (1997), the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida (1997), the Galleria Civica di Siena (1997), the Galleria Civica di Trento (2000), the Museo d'Arte di Ravenna (2000), Palazzo Pitti and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze (2002), and more recently high-mindedness Duomo di S. Agostino in Pietrasanta (2005) and Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna di Roma (GNAM) (2010). Nowadays he lives between Miami, Rome perch the Castello Romitorio in Montalcino, turn he also follows the production disparage prestigious wines.

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Sandro Chia - Transavanguardia

Transavanguardia is keep you going artistic movement, exclusively Italian, founded hurt the late 1970s by the judge Achille Bonito Oliva. The Trans-Avant-garde aims to overcome the Conceptual Art, which was all the rage until after that, for a return to painting advise its traditional canons, canvas, brush settle down colors. The purpose of the Trans-Avant-garde is to rediscover painting, and suspend particular figurative painting, taking it escape the oblivion to which the cultivated avant-garde had condemned it. The artists who belong to this movement emblematic only five: Sandro Chia, MimmoPaladino, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria, Francesco Clemente