Sandro Chia. Percorsi Recenti. Una città per l'arte

In the illustrious rooms of Palazzo Reale the Council of Milan - Culture and Performing Arts department in cooperation with the Mudima and the Antonio Mazzotta Foundations - presents 95 recent works by Sandro Chia created in 1996 and 1997, including works on paper, oil canvas and sculptures.
Among the most famous artist on the international scene Sandro Chia is one of the main characters of the Transavanguardia, the artistic movement born in Italy in the late '70s organized and theorized by Achille Bonito Oliva. During these years there is a return to the narrative art painting, which is linked to the tradition of the Italian 20th Century. The experience of reality induces the artists to turn their attention mainly to nature and man's stories, giving new importance to manual skills and overturns the idea of a progress of art meant only towards conceptual abstraction. Sandro Chia works in a wide range of styles thanks to his great technical skills, highlighting an idea of art which contains its own explanation. The reasons lie in the pleasure of creating a painting, at last freed from the tyranny of novelty and, on the contrary, entrusted to the capabilities of using the most different "ways" to get to the image.