Word: sandro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that he is pruning his collection, the bewilderment is great. What artists fear is not so much that their prices will falter -- though that happened to Italy's Sandro Chia when Saatchi dumped him -- as that new traders can move in and, by buying blocks from Saatchi, bypass the artists' dealers and force prices up out of all proportion to those of their new work. Robert Ryman, one of whose chaste minimalist paintings made $1.8 million at auction recently (gallery prices: from $50,000 to $300,000), now thinks it "unfortunate" that he ever let Saatchi have twelve...
...show has a dying fall into the rhetoric of the '80s, represented here for the umpteenth time by Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente and Mimmo Paladino. These figures have become quasi-official artists, like the stars of the Paris salons a century ago. Yet when the '80s have receded, it will seem odd that the feeble draftsmanship in Clemente's washed-out frescoes should once have been applauded, or that the lurid bombast of even the better works of Cucchi, such as the droopy head that lies like a huge Dalinian watch along the cemetery roof in Stupid Picture...
...past several weeks, Hong Kong Bureau Chief William Stewart and Photographer Sandro Tucci have been the only Western journalists in Burma. In normal times that would not be surprising: since the country's last democratic government was ousted in a 1962 coup, Burma has been virtually closed to visiting foreign correspondents. Yet during the past six months that benighted land has become one of the hottest news stories in the world, as thousands of dissident students, housewives, monks, civil servants and even police have taken to the streets in an attempt to topple the government and restore democracy...
...artists most heavily featured in the Italian pavilion are Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente and Sandro Chia -- together with Mimmo Paladino, 40, who has turned the main gallery into a continuous "environment" of stone figures, bronze emblems and copper sheet. Paladino's masks, wheels, cauldrons, skulls and traceries of rose stems, cast in bronze, have a wild unsettled air, a mix of couture sophistication and peasant witchcraft, that is quite striking; one only wishes that when he carves a figure in stone, it came out looking more like sculpture and less like a shop-window dummy. Also not to be missed...
...national retreat from the left. Perhaps the most significant reason for the Communists' defeat was the loss of the effetto Berlinguer, the sympathy vote for charismatic Communist Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer, who died shortly before the 1984 European Parliament elections. Today the party is led by Ales- sandro Natta, a colorless political veteran. Commentators surmised that the effetto Natta had hurt the party as much as the effetto Berlinguer had previously helped...