The warriors of Xi'an – Aosta Centro Saint-Benin, via the fiesta spirit 27 – until the 08/05/2016

warriorsThe exhibition documents a particular time of the expressive research of one of the most significant protagonists of contemporary art, Sandro Chia (Florence 1946), He appeared on the international scene at the Venice Biennale of 1980 with the group of five artists of the Trans.

Since then his work has been exhibited in major international art festivals and in prestigious museums such as the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

The exhibition of Aosta, curated by Daria Jorioz with Enzo Di Martino, It focuses on the legendary ancient Xi'an warriors(2.200 A.C.), found in China in 1974.
Artist nomadic for his ability to feed his creative world from different sources and always reaching for a personal formal digit, Chia has done on clay copies of some of these extraordinary warriors operation picassiana appropriation, deponendovi its unmistakable painterly gesture. The result is a fascinating exhibition, that intends to deliver to visitors a view representative of the complex and poetic imaginative world of this artist. (source: LoveVDA)