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Ripeness is black with Victor Man. His greys and modulated blacks are non-minimalist, anti-hard edge. They are alien to the uniform, pigmentary, black paintings of Motherwell, Kline, Newman, or Still, which originate in a conceptually sensorial take on color. Man?s work also differs from the overlytextured, narcissistic, and self-consciously hand-crafted blacks of Hartung or Soulages. The blue-green-black tones in Victor Man are ?gments rather than pigments. They are reminiscent of the medieval grisaille, that consummate technique for encapsulating a dazzling0Texts: Rachel Corbett, Enzo Cucchi, Erwin Kessler, Karl Holmqvist00Exhibition: Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany (11.09. - 31.10.2020).

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Enzo Cucchi was a key member of the Italian transavanguardia movement in the eighties which was part of a larger neo-expressionist trend. This catalog celebrates the work of a man who is among the most recognizable Italian artists on the contemporary scene. Collected here are over 100 paintings and drawings from the late seventies to today and held in major institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim in New York, the Beaubourg in Paris, the Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst in Humlebæk, and the Stedelijk in Amsterdam (among many others). They offer a highly detailed overview of Cucchi from his official debut on the international art scene onwards, allowing an appreciation of the extraordinary variety and richness of his work.