Claudio Montecucco - Affusolate
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Description from the seller
Numbered and signed by the artist on the back of the print, with the artist's certification, stamp, description, and signature on the back of the passepartout.
Fine Art paper on Hahnemuhle 320 g/m² stock. Mounted on a museum passepartout 3.5 cm.
Card size 21 x 29.7 cm
Image size 22 x 20 cm.
Artist Biography
Collaborates with Galleria Artd2 Milano
Galleria Blanchaert Milano
Series "Reading" (photographs not posed)
Cities declined as immense open-air reading rooms.
The depicted figures are captured casually, not posed.
started in 2003 and ongoing), in which the cities are presented as vast reading rooms whose boundaries—embracing stairs, walls, alleys, and monuments—easily become refuges where one can surrender 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 amid the chaos of cities.
In the case of the images presented by Montecucco, the artist has given an additional meaning to his works, which have gained strength from the concept of reading, and thus of Culture.
Photography with its casual readers is the protagonist of the architectures and magnificent works of art scattered through our art cities; it blends with them to create an intimate, silent dialogue between human, art, and thought.
The depicted characters are casually caught 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 using the words of Robert Doisneau:
"What I was trying to show was a world where I would feel at ease, 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 “Reading”
2024 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milano) "Sensuality"
2023 Cortona Biennial “Homage to Gino Severini” XV ed. (Arezzo) Sant’ Agostino Auditorium
2023 ArtVerona (Galleria Artd2 Milano) Verona Oct 12–15
2023 Signorelli Theatre Cortona (Arezzo) Oct 14 – Nov 2 “Reading”
2023 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milano)
2022 Chianciano Biennale Chianciano Art Museum of Art in Chianciano
2021 Palazzo Bourbon del Monte 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 (Galleria Blanchaert) Sensuality
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 Environmental Historical Museum, Pesaro ("L'intimità")
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 “In transit” (PaolaSosioGallery)
2016 "MIA Fair 2016". Milan (Galleria Romberg) ("Sensualita #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 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")
www.claudiomontecucco.it
Numbered and signed by the artist on the back of the print, with the artist's certification, stamp, description, and signature on the back of the passepartout.
Fine Art paper on Hahnemuhle 320 g/m² stock. Mounted on a museum passepartout 3.5 cm.
Card size 21 x 29.7 cm
Image size 22 x 20 cm.
Artist Biography
Collaborates with Galleria Artd2 Milano
Galleria Blanchaert Milano
Series "Reading" (photographs not posed)
Cities declined as immense open-air reading rooms.
The depicted figures are captured casually, not posed.
started in 2003 and ongoing), in which the cities are presented as vast reading rooms whose boundaries—embracing stairs, walls, alleys, and monuments—easily become refuges where one can surrender 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 amid the chaos of cities.
In the case of the images presented by Montecucco, the artist has given an additional meaning to his works, which have gained strength from the concept of reading, and thus of Culture.
Photography with its casual readers is the protagonist of the architectures and magnificent works of art scattered through our art cities; it blends with them to create an intimate, silent dialogue between human, art, and thought.
The depicted characters are casually caught 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 using the words of Robert Doisneau:
"What I was trying to show was a world where I would feel at ease, 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 “Reading”
2024 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milano) "Sensuality"
2023 Cortona Biennial “Homage to Gino Severini” XV ed. (Arezzo) Sant’ Agostino Auditorium
2023 ArtVerona (Galleria Artd2 Milano) Verona Oct 12–15
2023 Signorelli Theatre Cortona (Arezzo) Oct 14 – Nov 2 “Reading”
2023 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milano)
2022 Chianciano Biennale Chianciano Art Museum of Art in Chianciano
2021 Palazzo Bourbon del Monte 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 (Galleria Blanchaert) Sensuality
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 Environmental Historical Museum, Pesaro ("L'intimità")
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 “In transit” (PaolaSosioGallery)
2016 "MIA Fair 2016". Milan (Galleria Romberg) ("Sensualita #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 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")
www.claudiomontecucco.it
Details
Date of print
2006
Artist
Claudio Montecucco
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Title of artwork
Affusolate
Condition
Extremely fine
Technique
Digital print
Height
22 cm
Edition
25+1 copies, 1/25, size 22x20 cm. Year 2006
Width
20 cm
Signature
Hand signed
Genre
Fine art photography
