Sandro Chia

Modena is a city dear to Sandro Chia, for it has marked some of the most important stages of his artistic career. “Tre o quattro artisti secchi” at the Galleria Mazzoli was the exhibition that in 1978 started off the Transavanguardia phenomenon, which the Galleria Civica was then to give a wide-reaching account of four years later with a broad-based group show entitled ‘Transavanguardia Italia America’.
Other exhibitions, both solo and group, have led Chia back to Modena ever since then, right up to the present-day display at the Foro Boario, documenting – through a selection of some 100 works: paintings, drawings and sculptures – the painter’s most recent research, as well as illustrating the artist’s link with the Emilian city.

Chia’s artistic development is thoroughly represented by the exhibition itinerary, from the stage marked by the density of the artist’s colour blending and a sort of playful horror vacui, right up to a sort of “second wave” characterised by a more austere measure and by an overtly classical monumentality, only to be resolved, diluted through his subsidence into a new sense of nature as the artist’s very latest paintings show: a dozen or so of which have been especially produced for the present exhibition.

Where: Foro Boario,via Bono da Nonantola, 2 Modena
When:09/12/2011 al 29/01/2012 Opening times: Tuesday-Friday 3pm – 7pm; Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 10.30am – 7pm; closed on Mondays.
Free entrance
Info: Galleria Civica di Modena, corso Canalgrande 103, 41121 Modena tel. +39 059 2032911/2032940 - fax +39 059 2032932, sito mostra http://www.comune.modena.it/galleria