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Sandro Chia was among the foremost painters to emerge in the early 80’s. Represented by both Leo Castelli and Sperone in New York, he was a part of the Neo-Expressionist movement that sought to re-emphasize color and figurative representation. His bold and lush paintings were featured in almost every major museum exhibition benchmarking that era including Zeitgeist (Berlin) in 1982. In an illustrious career spanning almost five decades, some of his milestones include the Biennale of Paris, San Paolo and three iterations of the Venice Biennale.

“Freedom of Thought in Renaissance Venice”
with Edward Muir Jr.

In talks that explore La Serenissima’s social, cultural, and political history, bestselling Italian historian and novelist Alessandro Barbero views Venice’s relationship with the Ottoman Empire through the lens of the epic Battle of Lepanto in 1571, while Edward Muir Jr. examines the remarkably free exchange of ideas that flourished in Venice—some of them incendiary.