Interior Costume by Enzo Cucchi June 24, 2010

Enzo Cucchi, born in 1949, is considered an undisputed leader in the historic movement known as the Transavanguardia that began in Italy in the early 1980’s.

The exhibit “Interior Costume”, curated by esteemed art critic Achille Bonito Oliva, features works in papier-mache that reflect Enzo Cucchi’s symbolic and dream-like internal world. Oliva writes that “when Enzo Cucchi’s work - painting, drawing, sculpture - becomes architecture, ‘Interior Costume’, an exhibition of floating images on paper as anthropomorphic shapes, does indeed compete with the Tower of Babel.”

The exhibit was originally on view at the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples and was later transferred to MACRO (the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome).
Presented in collaboration with Associazione Incontri Internazionali d’Arte, Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico Artistico Etnoantropologico, Polo Museale di Napoli, Museo di Capodimonte, and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Los Angeles.

Opening night with the artist.
Exhibit on view through July 2010.