L'elefante di Giotto [Giotto's Elephant]

Cucchi is among the Italian artists who came to prominence in the 1980s. His imagery is deliberately simple, almost rudimentary in form—a “first vocabulary,” as he has expressed it. Cucchi describes his works as appealing to sense before it is conditioned by history or convention, while simultaneously evoking the dissociation and alienation that he believes to be characteristic of the modern condition. Such imagery and sensations are amplified in L’Elefante di Giotto, his largest, most mysterious and most technically demanding print.