CUCCHI, ENZO — SSimm' Nervusi

New York. Tony Shafrazi Gallery. 1997 Texts by Luca Marenzi, Carter Ratcliff, Dieter Meier. Exposition March-April 1997. 57, (1) p. 23 color plates. Frontisp. with portrait. Oblong 28 x 27 cm. SOFTCOVER: (Orig. paperback. with pictorial stiff wrpprs. VERY GOOD/ AS NEW) VERY RARE Edition limited to 1000 copies. Born in 1949, Cucchi first achieved prominence, together with Clemente and Chia, as a member of the Transavantgardia art movement in the 1970s. His work has since been exhibited at major international museums like the Guggenheim and The Centre Pompidou. This book, published as the catalog to his show at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York, presents his recent fresco paintings. The landscape of Cucchi's native Naples is made evident in these striking pictures. Throughout these deceptively simple works are motifs of skulls and disembodied, almost heavenly eyes.