This exhibition was the first full-scale solo exhibition in Japan of Enzo Cucchi, one of Italy’s leading contemporary artists. It comprised a total of 82 works, including 70 paintings, sculptures, and drawings spanning his career from the early period onward, together with 12 new works created specifically for the exhibition.
Beginning in the early 1980s, Cucchi participated in a succession of major international exhibitions and came to be associated, alongside Sandro Chia and Francesco Clemente, with the movements known as Transavanguardia and Neo-Expressionism. Reflecting this artistic development, the Sezon Museum of Art had presented a major exhibition of Francesco Clemente’s work in the previous year.
Works by Cucchi, Clemente, and Chia are held in the collection of the Sezon Museum of Modern Art.