Claudio Montecucco - Esercitarsi

Numbered and signed by the artist on the back of the print, artist certification, with stamp, description and signature on the back of the passe-partout.
Print on baryta Fine Art paper Hahnemuhle 320 g. Mounted on a 3.5 cm museum passe-partout.
Paper size 21x29.7 cm
Image size 26x19 cm.

Artist biography

Collaborates with Galleria Artd2 Milano
Galleria Blanchaert Milano

Series "Leggere" (unposed photographs)

Cities declined as vast open-air reading rooms.
The depicted characters are casually captured, not posed.
initiated in 2003 and still in progress), in which the cities are presented as immense open-air reading rooms, whose boundaries, embracing stairs, low walls, alleys and monuments, easily become refuges in which to surrender to one’s favorite authors. Montecucco manages to bring forth that gentle, malleable atmosphere ready to welcome and cradle the reader, preserving the intimacy of the sweetest moment 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 that have been enhanced by the concept of reading, and thus of Culture.
The photograph, with its casual readers, is protagonist of the architectures and the magnificent artworks scattered through our cities of art; it blends with them, creating an intimate and silent dialogue between humans, art and thought.
The depicted characters are casually captured, while 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 resorting to the words of Robert Doisneau:
«What I was trying to show was a world where I would feel good, 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 Milano) Bergamo January 10 – 12, 2025 “Leggere”

2024 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milano) "Sensualita"

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

2023 ArtVerona (Galleria Artd2 Milano) Verona October 12-15

2023 Teatro Signorelli Cortona (Arezzo) October 14 – November 2 “Leggere”

2023 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milano)

2022 Biennale Chianciano Museo d’Arte di Chianciano

2021 Palazzo Bourbon del Monte Monte Santa Maria Tiberina(“Leggere”)

2020 LDX Artodrome Gallery Berlin (Leggere)

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

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

2019 Civic Pinacoteca Crociani Museum Montepulciano Siena (”Leggere”)

2019 Affordable ArtFair Hong Kong (GalleriaArtd2)

2019 MIA ArtFair - Milano (GalleriaBlanchaert) Sensualita'

2019 Salone Libro di Torino (“Chi legge”) (ArtPhoto)

2019 “Welcome to Japan” (Hysteriart Gallery Milano) (Tokyo)

2017 “Wopart" PhotographyArtFair Lugano (GalleriaBlanchaert)

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

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

2017 MuSA Museum of Environmental Historical, Pesaro (“L' intimita'")

2017 “MIAFair Milano2 9 - 13 March 2017 Galleria Blanchaert (“Infinity”)

2017 Kasa dei Libri Milan ("Alla ricerca del lettore perduto")

2017 Fondazione Cariarte Perugia ("White")

2016 Vogue Photo Festival Milan “In cammino ” (PaolaSosioGallery)

2016 "MIA Fair 2016". Milan (Galleria Romberg) ("Sensualita #1")

2016 Environmental Historical Museum, Pesaro ("Leggere")

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

2015“Fotofever, Carrousell 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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