Sandro Chia

In an explosion of colors, lines that tell stories, and shapes that chase each other across glossy surfaces, the Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m. is hosting a solo exhibition by Sandro Chia at its Paris location. Chia is one of the leading figures of Transavanguardia, a movement born in the 1980s in New York from a group of Italian artists aiming to revive figuration and narration-key characteristics of Italian art history and tradition. In Chia's case, figure and narrative unfold not only in painting but also in sculpture, mosaic, and ceramics. In this context, the Galleria Maggiore presents alongside some majestic painted canvases a selection of works created for Chia's important solo exhibition at the Museo Internazionale della Ceramica in Faenza (2011) - realized with the contribution of Maggiore g.a.m. - where painting and ceramics blend into a poetic continuum.

The exhibition: The Body Shape: la forma del corpo. From Giorgio de Chirico to Allen Jones, from Paul Delvaux to Louise Nevelson seeks to reflect through art on the representations of the body that artists, according to their style or their poetics, model, distort, make statuary, dissect, transform or are ironic about.

The exhibition explores in a diverse but organized way the theme of "Earth". The artists selected to illustrate this intriguing play of cross-references are: Mimmo Paladino, Leoncillo, Sandro Chia, Roberto Sebastian Matta