Claudio Montecucco - Amabilita'

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

Fine Art baryta paper print by Hahnemuhle 320 g/m². Mounted on a 3.5 cm passepartout.
Paper size 21 x 29.7 cm
Image size 26 x 19 cm.

Artist Biography

Collaborates with Galleria Artd2 Milano
Galleria Blanchaert Milano

Series "Reading" (photographs not posed)
Cities unfold as immense open-air reading rooms.
The depicted figures are captured casually, not posed.

started in 2003 and ongoing), in which cities are presented as immense reading rooms open to the sky, whose boundaries, embracing stairs, walls, alleys and monuments, easily become refuges in which to give in to one’s preferred authors. Montecucco manages to evoke that gentle, malleable atmosphere ready to welcome and nurture 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, which have gained value from the concept of reading, and thus of Culture.
The photographs with their casual readers are protagonists of the architectures and the magnificent works of art scattered through our art cities, merging with them to create an intimate, silent dialogue between man, art and thought.
The depicted figures are casually captured while they are absorbed in reading, often with their backs turned and constantly unaware that they are part of a work of art.

Claudio Montecucco tells his project by 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 a 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 "Reading"

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

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

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

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

2023 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milano)

2022 Chianciano Biennial Chianciano Museum of Art in 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 - Milano (GalleriaBlanchaert) Sensualità

2019 Salone del Libro di Torino ("Who Reads") (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 "Sensualità'#2 Bormio 27 December 2016 – 30 March (Paola Sosio Contemporary Art Gallery)

2017 MuSA Museum of Environmental History, Pesaro ("Intimacy")

2017 MIAFair Milano2 9 – 13 March 2017 Galleria Blanchaert ("Infinity")

2017 Kasa dei Libri Milan ("In Search of the Lost Reader")

2017 Fondazione Cariarte Perugia ("White")

2016 Vogue Photo Festival Milan "On the Way" (PaolaSosioGallery)

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

2016 Environmental History 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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