Born in 1964, Andrea Zucchi lives and works in Milan, his native city. He started to paint at the age of eighteen as a self-taught artist, and then went on to perfect his drawing skills with a three-year course in illustration held by the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan. Following his studies, he chose to dedicate his life-work to painting. His love of travel emerges clearly from his canvases that are rich in ethnic references and suggestions. His pictorial work has developed in time through extremely diverse and variegated cycles of artworks, which reflect and mingle, often quite disturbingly, his various and stratified interests: great classical art and the avant-garde movements of the 1900s, ethnic exoticism and scientific images, spiritual and esoteric symbologies, and a Pop aesthetic. He has participated in various award schemes such as the “BP Portrait Award 1997” held at London’s National Portrait Galery in 1997. He has held various solo exhibitions, comprising that of 2013 at the Fondazione Steline, and has taken part in numerous colectives, including “Arte Italiana, 1968-2007. Pittura” staged at Palazzo Reale in Milan in 2007, the “Pop up italian show” at the Hubei Museum of Art of Wuhan in China in 2014, and “Origins of Civilization” at the Pavillion of Syrian Arab Republic during the Venice Biennale of 2015.