 The movement was at its peak during the 1980s and was part of a wider movement of Neo-Expressionists painters around the world.Cucchi's first major Retrospective was held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 1986 and his works are held in numerous museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Tate London and the Art Institute of Chicago.Cucchi lives and works in Rome and Ancona.