MAXXI in Rome dedicates an exhibition to Enzo Cucchi, exponent of Transavanguardia

An exhibition dedicated to Enzo Cucchi, one of the leading exponents of the Transavanguardia movement, is scheduled at MAXXI in Rome from October 17, 2019 to January 26, 2020. Known as a great inventor of images, Cucchi incorporates an aesthetic that spans time and history, synthesizing individual myths and collective imagination.

On display is a single work: a putto, to whose big toe a scorpion appears clinging, hands to eyes in the gesture of the telescope to focus vision, reinterprets the classical iconography of the nude child in a highly contemporary image, with references that recur throughout art history and range from Roman statuary to great Baroque frescoes.

In the depiction of the putto conceived by the artist, art and myth, science and astrology merge: his cheerful play is ravaged by the threat of the poisonous animal, which, according to Greek mythology, had killed the hunter Orion because of his hubris, where the scorpion is a symbol of the unknown and even of death, an allegory of mystery and the occult.

For all information you can visit the official MAXXI website.

Ph. credit: Mark Peckmezian

MAXXI in Rome dedicates an exhibition to Enzo Cucchi, exponent of Transavanguardia

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