Transvanguardia italiana sandro chia biography

Italian sculptor

Sandro Chia (born 20 April ) is an Italian painter and sculptor.^[2] In the late s and early s he was, with Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria, and Mimmo Paladino, a principal member of the Italian Neo-Expressionist movement which was baptised Transavanguardia by Achille Bonito Oliva.^[3]

Life

Chia was born in Florence, in Tuscany in central Italy, on 20 April He studied at the Istituto d'Arte di Firenze&#;[it] from to ,^[1] and then, until , at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze.^[2] He then travelled in Europe, in Turkey and in India.^[4][5] He settled in Rome in , and began to show work in the following year.^[4][5] He spent the winter of – in Mönchengladbach, in Nordrhein-Westfalen in West Germany, on a study grant.^[2] Later that year he moved to New York in the United States, where he lived for more than twenty years.^[4]