Claudio Montecucco - Clothilde

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 barinated Fine Art paper Hahnemuhle 320 g. Mounted on a museum passepartout 3.5 cm.
Paper size 21x29.7 cm
Image size 22x20 cm.

Artist Biography

Collaborates with Galleria Artd2 Milano
Galleria Blanchaert Milano

Series "Leggere" (photographs not posed)
Cities unfolded as immense open-air reading rooms.
The characters depicted are captured casually, not posing.

started in 2003 and still in progress), in which the cities are declinated as immense reading rooms
whose boundaries, embracing stairs, walls, alleys and monuments, easily become refuges
in which to abandon oneself to one's preferred authors. Montecucco manages to bring out
that gentle, malleable atmosphere ready to welcome and tend to the reader, preserving the intimacy of the
most sweet 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 which have been strengthened by the concept of reading, and thus of Culture.
The photography with its casual readers takes center stage in the architectures and the magnificent works
of art scattered through our art cities, merging with them to create an intimate and silent dialogue
between man, art and thought.
The characters depicted 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 using 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 Jan 10–12, 2025 “Leggere”

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

2023 Biennale Cortona “Homage to Gino Severini” XV edition (Arezzo) Auditorium Sant’ Agostino

2023 ArtVerona (Galleria Artd2 Milano) Verona Oct 12–15

2023 Teatro Signorelli Cortona (Arezzo) Oct 14 – Nov 2 “Leggere”

2023 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milano)

2022 Biennale Chianciano Museo d’Arte di Chianciano

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

2020 LDX Artodrome Gallery Berlin (Leggere)

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

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

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

2019 Affordable ArtFair Hong Kong (GalleriaArtd2)

2019 MIA ArtFair - Milano (GalleriaBlanchaert) Sensualita'

2019 Turin Book Fair (“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'intimità”)

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 Milano “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, 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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