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Sandro Chia
Light Struck

1984

About the Item

Light Struck Etching & Drypoint, 1984 Signed, dated and numbered in red pencil (see photos0 The artist's chop stamp (CS) lower right corner Edition: 25 (18/25), 5 artist's proofs, B.A.T. Printer: Harlan-Weaver, NY Publisher: Charles Cowles Gallery, NY For Jennifer Muller/Works Foundation Condition: Printed on a large sheet of St. Armand handmade white chine colle paper. Excellent original condition. Plate size: 19 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches Sheet size: 41 1/4 x 32 inches The work will be carefully rolled for shipment Reference: An Exhibition and Sale: Sandro Chia Prints 1973-1984, September 25-October 14, 1984, The Mezzanine Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated page 52 of catalogue Provenance: Charles Cowles, the pubisher "Sandro Chia was one of the foremost artists during the resurgent interest in painting in the 1980s. He established himself as a major artist of the movement in Italian figurative painting known as the Transavanguardia, a Neo-Expressionist movement that sought to re-emphasize color and representation in reaction to the Conceptual Art of the times. His works were exhibited in many important museums and galleries internationally, and featured in almost every major museum exhibition during that era including Zeitgeist in 1982. In a career spanning over four decades, some of the exhibition milestones include the Biennale of Paris, San Paolo and three different iterations of the Venice Biennale. In his expressive paintings, Chia celebrates man’s sensuality, vitality and relationship with nature. Assimilating culture and imagery from the troves of art history, particularly the Italian Renaissance and Futurism, he depicts narratives of eroticism, melancholy and death, often abound with historical cameos and references. Chia’s main protagonists are larger-than-life, heroic male figures imbued with an enigmatic sense of mission, perhaps manifestations of his own identity. He paints with vigorous brushstrokes of vibrant color that energizes the entire surface. His recent paintings, one sees the result of an accomplished hand at work for 45 years, the sobriety of an artist in his “late phase.” Pictorially, they still portray heroic-like men and women against a sumptuous landscape, but here now is work more contemplative. Born in Florence, Italy, in 1946, Sandro Chia studied at the Istituto d’Arte and then at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence where he graduated in 1969. Since the 1980s, he has exhibited widely throughout Europe and the United States, especially in New York City where he lived and worked until the early 2000s. Today, Chia continues to work between his studios in Miami and Rome, and also follows the production of a prestigious line of award-winning wines at his Castello Romitorio wine-making estate in Montalcino. His work is included in prestigious public and private collections around the globe, including the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany and Tate, London, England. Important solo exhibitions include: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1983), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1984), Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin (1984), Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1992), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1984), Mumok, Vienna (1989), Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (1989), Galleria Civica D’Arte Contemporanea, Trento (1990), Villa Medici, Rome (1995), Palazzo Reale, Milan (1997), Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence (2002), Duomo of St. Agostino, Pietrasanta (2005), Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague (2008), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (2010), Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy (2011). He is represented in New York by Marc Straus Gallery." Courtesy Marc Straus
  • Creator:
    Sandro Chia (1946, Italian)
  • Creation Year:
    1984
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 19.25 in (48.9 cm)Width: 21.25 in (53.98 cm)
  • Medium:
    Etching
  • Movement & Style:
    Contemporary
  • Period:
    1980-1989
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Fairlawn, OH
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: FA97751stDibs: LU14012366482
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