Enzo CucchiThe Poet and the Magician
the exhibition’s closing has been extended to Sunday 8 October 2023
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curated by Luigia Lonardelli, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
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MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
the exhibition’s closing has been extended to Sunday 8 October 2023
galleria 4
curated by Luigia Lonardelli, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
The unedited portrait of a multifaceted and visionary artist who has always eluded definitions.
Enzo Cucchi is one of the most prolific and innovative artists on the contemporary scene, a free thinker and countercurrent. His research is rooted in the written word and flourishes in a multitude of different signs, symbols and expressive languages. Like an alchemist, he bewitches and moulds matter; like a storyteller, he evokes stories, myths and places far away in time.
The more than two hundred works in the exhibition mark out an itinerary that is indivisible and full of surprises, a story told in scattered pages that refuses any chronological linearity and returns creativity in perpetual movement. Scattered everywhere, like traces in the gallery, monumental works, drawings, small bronzes, ceramics, graphics and artist’s books continually intercept the visitor’s gaze.
header: Enzo Cucchi, Senza titolo, enamel on steel mesh, untitled, 2008
Cataloghi della mostra
2023 exhibition’s catalogue
Enzo Cucchi. The Poet and the Magician