Opening today, June 4, 2026, at the Consonni Radziszewski Gallery in Milan, the Enzo Cucchi - Aleksandra Waliszewska exhibition, which can be visited until September 26, relates the works of the two artists, Enzo Cucchi and Aleksandra Waliszewska. The Milan exhibition is part of Consonni Radziszewski Gallery’s program and offers a comparison of two pictorial practices that are distant in generation and language, but share the centrality of the image and the use of complex symbolic systems.
The opening is scheduled in the 6-9 p.m. time slot in the spaces at 6 Via Gustavo Modena.
Aleksandra Waliszewska, born in Warsaw in 1976, lives and works in the Polish capital. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, she entered a family context characterized by a matriarchal artistic tradition spanning four generations. Her painting production is distinguished by a strong atmospheric density and a constant reference to the memory of art history, with particular attention to late 19th-century Symbolism.
His compositions are structured around narrative nuclei in which sex and death coexist, with central female figures inserted into apocalyptic scenarios. The depicted landscapes host animals, mythological creatures, zombies and hybrid figures, constructing a layered imagery. The works also refer to the geographical and cultural context of Poland, with references to the industrial landscape, ancient forests and swampy areas, as well as Slavic mythological traditions.
In 2024, at the Benaki Museum in Athens, in collaboration with the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Waliszewska presented her first solo exhibition in Greece entitled Aleksandra Waliszewska: Irruption of Antiquity, curated by Alison Gingeras.
Enzo Cucchi was born in Morro d’Alba in 1949 and lives and works in Rome. In the late 1970s he established himself as one of the central figures of Transavanguardia, a movement theorized by critic Achille Bonito Oliva and linked to the return of figuration in painting and sculpture in opposition to minimalism and conceptual art.
Together with Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Nicola De Maria and Mimmo Paladino, Cucchi participated in the group’s international establishment, consolidated in 1980 with a traveling exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, the Folkwang Museum in Essen and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, as well as participation in Documenta 7 in 1982.
Over the course of his career, Cucchi’s works have been presented in numerous international institutions, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Wiener Secession, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Castello di Rivoli, and MAXXI in Rome, where he was featured in an exhibition in 2023.
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| Milan, at Consonni Radziszewski Gallery an exhibition on Enzo Cucchi and Aleksandra Waliszewska |
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