Claudio Montecucco - Intelligenza

Numbered print signed by the artist on the back, artist certification, with stamp description and signature on the back of the passepartout.

Print on Hahnemühle baryta Fine Art paper, mounted on a 3.5 cm museum passepartout.
Paper size 21x29.7 cm
Image size 26x19 cm.

Artist Biography

Collaborates with Galleria Artd2 Milan
Galleria Blanchaert Milan

Series "Reading" (photographs not posed)
Cities declined as immense open-air reading rooms.
The depicted characters are casually caught, not posed.

started in 2003 and still ongoing, in which cities are presented as vast reading rooms
open to the sky, whose boundaries—embracing stairs, low walls, alleys and monuments—become easily sheltered
places in which to surrender to one’s preferred authors. Montecucco manages to evoke
that gentle, pliable atmosphere ready to welcome and care for the reader, preserving the intimacy of
moments most sweet from the chaos of the cities.
In the case of the images presented by Montecucco, the artist has managed to give an additional meaning
to his works, which have been enriched by the concept of reading, and thus of Culture.
The photographs with their casual readers are the protagonists of the architectures and the magnificent artworks
scattered through our art cities; they fuse with them, creating an intimate and silent dialogue
between humanity, art and thought.
The depicted characters are casually caught, while they are absorbed in reading, often with their backs turned and constantly unaware of being part of a work of art.

Claudio Montecucco tells his project by invoking the words of Robert Doisneau:
"What I was trying to show was a world where I would feel comfortable, where people would be kind, where I would find the tenderness I hoped to receive. My photos were like proof that this world can exist."

Recent Exhibitions:

2025 Civic Museum of Villa Colloredo Mels in Recanati, March 2 – June 8, "Infinite Readings"

2025 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan) Bergamo January 10–12, 2025 "Reading"

2024 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan) "Sensualità"

2023 Cortona Biennale “Omaggio a Gino Severini” XV ed. (Arezzo) Sant’Agostino Auditorium

2023 ArtVerona (Galleria Artd2 Milan) Verona October 12–15

2023 Signorelli Theatre Cortona (Arezzo) October 14 – November 2 "Reading"

2023 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan)

2022 Chianciano Biennale Chianciano Museum of Art, Chianciano

2021 Palazzo Bourbon del Monte Museum, Monte Santa Maria Tiberina ("Reading")

2020 LDX Artodrome Gallery Berlin (Reading)

2019 “Fotofever, Carrousel du Louvre”. Paris (Artd2Gallery)

2019 Civic Pinacoteca Museum “F. Podesti” Ancona "Reading"

2019 Civic Pinacoteca Crociani Museum Montepulciano Siena ("Reading")

2019 Affordable ArtFair Hong Kong (GalleriaArtd2)

2019 MIA ArtFair - Milan (Galleria Blanchaert) Sensualità

2019 Turin International Book Fair ("Who Reads?") (ArtPhoto)

2019 "Welcome to Japan" (Hysteriart Gallery Milan) (Tokyo)

2017 “Wopart" PhotographyArtFair Lugano (GalleriaBlanchaert)

2017 Brera Academy of Fine Arts Milan (Galleria Jean Blanchaert)

2017 “Sensualità'#2 Bormio 27 December 2016 – 30 March (Paola Sosio Contemporary Art Gallery)

2017 MuSA Museum of Environmental Historical Art, Pesaro ("Intimacy")

2017 “MIAFair Milan2 9–13 March 2017 Galleria Blanchaert ("Infinity")

2017 Kasa dei Libri Milan ("Searching for the Lost Reader")

2017 Foundation Cariarte Perugia ("White")

2016 Vogue Photo Festival Milano “In transit” (PaolaSosioGallery)

2016 "MIA Fair 2016" Milan (Galleria Romberg) ("Sensualità #1")

2016 Environmental Historical Museum, Pesaro ("Reading")

2016 Civic Museum of Contemporary Art Palazzo della Penna, Perugia ("Reading Perugia")

2015“Fotofever, Carrousel du Louvre”. Paris (Galleria Romberg)

2015 "MIA Art Fair Milano2" 10–13 April 2015 Galleria Blanchaert (Infinity)

2014 MIA&DFair - MarinaBaySands – Singapore (GalleriaBlanchaert)

2013 Civic Museum of Contemporary Art Palazzo della Penna, Perugia ("Umbrialibri 2013")

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