Andrea Zucchi's work is punctuated by reflections on the deepest meaning of making art, and specifically on the use of drawing and painting in relationship with the images from our memory, our history of art or our current events. In the project for Galleria Vik Milano, Zucchi uses the technique of ballpoint pen drawing, printed on a large scale, representing subjects taken from old Nineteenth Century photographs that almost always represent oriental scenes, from Japan to India and Egypt. An idea of nostalgic and melanch olic orientalism acts as a trait - d'union, bringing back into vogue a world that no longer exists and that recalls the scenes painted by Ingres, Delacroix, Gauguin, Matisse.
Andrea Zucchi
Artists
His finely defined drawings in blue ballpoint pen evoke the ancient engravings and a fast and nervous stroke that makes them very modern. The images themselves, intentionally taken from photographs of the Nineteenth Century, on one hand recall a nostalgic and forgotten world, and on the other a reworking, in an original way, the theme of copying so present in the practices of conceptual artists of the last decades.
An embracing blues, between past and present, in warm shades of blue and ivory.
Andrea Zucchi was born in 1964 in Milan, where he lives and works. Form and abstraction are the two poles between which Andrea Zucchi’s search has always oscillated. In his work, the Milanese artist searches for the impossible unity among those that, since the early 20th century, have become the cardinal points of painting: iconic and aniconic. His works have been exhibited at the Venice Biennial and Rome Quadrennial, as well as different institutional museums in Italy and abroad. Sui Generis at the Pac, Milan (2000), Arte italiana, 1968 - 2007. Pittura, at the Royal Palace, Milan (2007), Percorsi riscoperti dell’arte italiana at MART of Trento (2011) and Pop up Italian show at the Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China (2014).