Sandro Chia

SANDRO CHIA (Florence, 1946).
“Athletes,” 1988.
Lithograph, print no. 3/300.
Signed, dated, and numbered by hand.
Measurements: 86 x 66 cm.

Italian painter and sculptor. A leading figure in the Italian Transavantgarde movement—alongside Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, Nicola De Maria, and Enzo Cucchi—his work has been exhibited in the world’s most important museums and galleries, notably at the Paris, São Paulo, and Venice Biennales. Among his most important exhibitions are those at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1983), the Metropolitan Museum in New York (1984), the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin (1984, 1992), the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (1984); the museums in Düsseldorf (1984), Antwerp (1989), Mexico City (1989), the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence (1991), Karlsruhe (1992), Palm Springs (1993), the Villa Medici in Rome (1995), the Palazzo Reale in Milan (1997), the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida (1997), the Galleria Civica in Siena (1997), the Galleria Civica in Trento (2000), the Art Museum of Ravenna (2000), the Palazzo Pitti and the National Archaeological Museum in Florence (2002); and, more recently, the Cathedral of Sant’Agostino in Pietrasanta (2005).