Enzo Cacciola Artwork valuations, appraisals and auction estimates

Born in Arenzano (GE) on 12 December 1945. He held his first solo exhibition in 1971 in Genoa at the Galleria La Bertesca, focusing attention on the dynamics of the relationships between plane - shapes - colour. Read the full biography

Born in Arenzano (GE) on 12 December 1945. He held his first solo exhibition in 1971 in Genoa at the Galleria La Bertesca, focusing attention on the dynamics of the relationships between plane - shapes - colour. In 1973 he began working on new alternative materials to oil on canvas and created his first material pieces by exclusively examining the surface and its linguistic data. In June 1975 he participated in the exhibition Pittura analitica curated by Klaus Honnef and Catherine Millet with paintings in concrete that highlighted the problems relating to the space of analysis offered by the materiality of the work. Participation in Documenta 6 (Kassel, 1977) marks a partial discontinuity with the previous work, due to a conceptual reinterpretation of the artist's work (and function). Starting from 1979, on this basis, he embarked on a path of reflection and research that led him to work and exhibit overseas, between Washington, Mexico City and Panama City. In 1981 he confronted the themes of Transavantgarde by participating in the exhibition Painting in Roots by Achille Bonito Oliva and thus opening up to figuration, which however is perceived and rendered above all in conceptual terms. A further step in the direction of the interpenetration between figurative and conceptual is taken with the experience of Short memory painting (Milan, 1982), curated by Viana Conti, aimed at recording the "incursions" of the artist who inserts his figure and his optics in some masterpieces of nineteenth and twentieth century art.