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Cacciola Enzo

Enzo Cacciola was born in Arenzano on 12th December 1945; he currently lives in Rocca Grimalda. His first solo show was in 1971 in the Galleria La Bertesca in Genoa. Until 1973-1974 his work was part of an inquiry into the relationship between the plane, the support, and colour, but it was in about 1974-1975 that he developed his best known period, that of the cement and asbestos works, and then of the “cements” in which the material and, above all, the artist’s working process became central.

With these works he took part in the Analytische Malerei show in Düsseldorf in June 1975 and, in 1977, he was invited to Documenta 6. After Kassel, the linearity of his work was broken, and the artist began a long period of thinking about his own role as an artist and his way of working; this led him to touch on figuration at the beginning of the 1980s, and then to a private, hidden work until the dawn of the new millennium.

This was interrupted by a period of social activity (he was mayor of Rocca Grimalda for about a decade in the 1990s). In 2000 he began again to construct works, always based on industrial materials – Multigum, screws, bolts – in which the analytical creative process was related to the formal result: these were almost monochrome diptyches put together and united by bolts.

This output attracted the attention of some important galleries which exhibited the works in solo and group shows, as well as in the most visited national fairs, exhibitions that paid tribute to the role he had in Analytical Painting and in its current developments, of which he is one of its most autonomous exponents.


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