Claudio Montecucco - Infinite

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 Hahnemuhle ”baritata” Fine Art paper 320 gsm. Mounted on a museum-style passe-partout 3.5 cm.
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 unfolded as immense reading rooms in the open air.
The characters depicted are captured casually, not posed.

initiated in 2003 and still ongoing), in which cities are declaimed 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 preferred authors. Montecucco manages to bring out that gentle, malleable atmosphere, ready to welcome and nurture the reader, preserving the intimacy of the 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 come to embody the concept of reading, and thus of Culture.
The photograph with its casual readers is the protagonist of the architectures and the magnificent works of art scattered throughout our art cities; it fuses with them, creating an intimate and silent dialogue between man, art and thought.
The characters depicted 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 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 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 (GalleriaBlanchaert) Sensualità

2019 Salone del Libro di Torino ("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 Art, Pesaro ("Intimacy")

2017 MIAFair Milan 2 9 – 13 March 2017 Galleria Blanchaert ("Infinity")

2017 Kasa dei Libri Milan ("In search of the lost reader")

2017 Cariarte Foundation Perugia ("White")

2016 Vogue Photo Festival Milan “On the way” (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 Milan2 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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