Enzo Cucchi (born 1949) is one of the central figures of postwar Italian art and a leading protagonist of the Transavanguardia movement.

Emerging in the late 1970s, his work marked a decisive shift away from the analytical and dematerialized strategies of Conceptual Art toward a renewed engagement with figuration, gesture and expressive materiality.

Cucchi’s practice resists medium hierarchies. Painting, drawing and sculpture function as interconnected fields within a unified poetic and symbolic universe. His works are characterized by mythic imagery, archaic symbols, fragmented bodies and landscapes that oscillate between memory, dream and narrative fiction. Rather than illustrating stories, his compositions construct psychological and metaphysical spaces in which image, text and sign coexist.

The catalogue provides an overview of works produced between 1982 and 1988, a formative period in which Cucchi consolidated his international presence. During these years, his large-scale paintings and sculptural interventions articulated a distinctly personal visual language, combining expressive brushwork with emblematic motifs rooted in Italian cultural history and broader Mediterranean iconography.