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Article: Enzo Cucchi at Tony Shafrazi.(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Enzo Cucchi, the Italian painter whose work shared so much '80s limelight, looks better than ever. His work is still quizzical, but less operatic and less obscure. This show of new pieces (all dated 1999-2000) consisted of mixed-medium works on paper adhered to large stretched linen supports and smaller paintings on canvas. In the large works, Cucchi incorporates three-dimensional objects. Sotto Lingua (Under the Tongue), for instance, has a circle of fake fur pasted onto the mouth of a big squinting head that sits in an egg-yolk yellow field. In another large work, Cattedrale de Storia (Cathedral of History), a clipped section of chicken wire encages a little fellow in a ...