Claudio Montecucco - Autenticita'

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

Print on baritata Fine Art paper Hahnemuhle 320 g/m2. Mounted on a museum passepartout 3.5 cm.
Paper size 29.7 x 42 cm.
Image size 28 x 38 cm.

Artist Biography

Collaborates with Galleria Artd2 Milan
Galleria Blanchaert Milan

Series "Leggere" (photographs not posed)
The cities declined as immense reading rooms open to the sky.
The depicted characters are captured casually, not posed.

started in 2003 and ongoing), in which cities are declined as immense 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 out
that mild and malleable atmosphere ready to welcome and care for the reader, preserving the intimacy of the
most sweet moment from the chaos of 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 strengthened by the concept of reading, and therefore of Culture.
The photograph with its casual readers is the protagonist of the architectures and the magnificent works
of art scattered through our cities of art, it blends with them creating an intimate and silent dialogue
between man, art and thought.
The depicted characters are casually captured, 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 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 to June 8 "Infinite Readings"

2025 Baf Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan) Bergamo Jan 10-12, 2025 "Leggere"

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

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

2023 ArtVerona (Galleria Artd2 Milan) Verona Oct 12-15

2023 Signorelli Theatre Cortona (Arezzo) Oct 14 Nov 2 "Leggere"

2023 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan)

2022 Chianciano Biennale Chianciano Museum of Art in 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 - Milan (GalleriaBlanchaert) Sensualita'

2019 Turin Book Fair ("Chi legge") (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 "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 Milano ("Alla ricerca del lettore perduto")

2017 Fondazione Cariarte Perugia ("White")

2016 Vogue Photo Festival Milano "In cammino" (PaolaSosioGallery)

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

2016 Museo Storico Ambientale, 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 Aprile 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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