Sandro Chia

From 17 September to 5 November the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento presents the exhibition "Sandro Chia" curated by Vittoria Coen, with about fifty pieces among which many never seen before works of large size (made expressly for the occasion), and other recent works.
On show there are some bronze sculptures of large size, and also oil canvas of different sizes: large, medium and small, which offer the visitor an overview on the present world of expression of Sandro Chia, one of the most meaningful interpreters of the contemporary artistic culture.
The poetic world, where Chia treats his subjects and transforms them into painting, establishes a link with the archaic past in a far away temporal dimension. Painting is the main means to represent the transformation of a more and more complex and hard to please existence. The Transavanguardia movement that Sandro Chia joins was born in the '80s from the recovery of visual means of expression of the past, in opposition to some forms of excessive conceptualism.