Enzo Cucchi signs the poster for the 66th edition of the Festival dei Due Mondi

Considered the most visionary artist among the exponents of the Transavantgarde, Enzo Cucchi conceives painting as a means of bringing together a series of forms, concepts and materials, attaching great importance to drawing, the primary sign of the energy with which he stands beforeopera. An extraordinary inventor of images, Cucchi incorporates an aesthetic that spans time and history, synthesizing individual myths and collective imagery. Disparate symbols, classical or dreamlike, wrested from current events or memory, overlap and dialogue on the chromatic fabric from to which they seem, concomitantly, to emerge.

The poster of the sixty-sixth Festival dei Due Mondi shows the parable of humanity, seduced by beauty as a fatal attraction. The iconographic image of the donkey dying while working symbolically represents the idea that beauty and toil are inseparable, while the tail is the cosmic brush surrounding the universe, represented by the skull.

Enzo Cucchi has had numerous solo exhibitions, and has taken part to in group exhibitions, in the most important Italian and foreign exhibition spaces such as the Kunsthalle in Basel, the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Castello di Rivoli, the Palazzo Reale in Milan, the Sezon Museum of Art in Tokyo, the Academy of France to Rome, the Musée d'art moderne in Saint-Étienne Metropole. He has also participated in the most significant contemporary art exhibitions to internationally including the Venice International Art Biennale, Documenta to Kassel, the Quadriennale d'Arte in Rome. His works can be found in the world's major museum collections and in the most prestigious national and international private collections.