Claudio Montecucco - Incanto
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Description from the seller
Artwork numbered and signed by the artist on the back of the print, artist certification, with stamp, description and signature on the back passepartout.
Print on baritata Fine Art paper Hahnemuhle 320 g. Mounted on a museum-grade 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 "Leggere" (photographs not posed)
Cities unfolded as vast reading rooms for open-air skies. The characters depicted are caught casually, not posed.
started in 2003 and still ongoing), in which cities are presented as immense reading rooms with open skies, whose boundaries—embracing stairs, walls, alleys and monuments—easily become shelters in which to surrender to one’s preferred authors. Montecucco manages to evoke that gentle and malleable atmosphere ready to welcome and nurture the reader, preserving the intimacy of the most tender 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 artworks scattered through our cities of art, blending with them to create an intimate and silent dialogue between humankind, art and thought.
The characters depicted 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 recounts 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 evidence 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 Jan 10–12, 2025 “Leggere”
2024 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan) "Sensualita"
2023 Cortona Biennale “Omaggio a Gino Severini” XV ed. (Arezzo) Sant’ Agostino Auditorium
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 Art Museum of Art in Chianciano
2021 Palazzo Bourbon del Monte Museum, 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 Art, Pesaro ("L' intimità")
2017 MIAFair Milan 2 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, Carrousell 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")
www.claudiomontecucco.it
Artwork numbered and signed by the artist on the back of the print, artist certification, with stamp, description and signature on the back passepartout.
Print on baritata Fine Art paper Hahnemuhle 320 g. Mounted on a museum-grade 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 "Leggere" (photographs not posed)
Cities unfolded as vast reading rooms for open-air skies. The characters depicted are caught casually, not posed.
started in 2003 and still ongoing), in which cities are presented as immense reading rooms with open skies, whose boundaries—embracing stairs, walls, alleys and monuments—easily become shelters in which to surrender to one’s preferred authors. Montecucco manages to evoke that gentle and malleable atmosphere ready to welcome and nurture the reader, preserving the intimacy of the most tender 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 artworks scattered through our cities of art, blending with them to create an intimate and silent dialogue between humankind, art and thought.
The characters depicted 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 recounts 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 evidence 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 Jan 10–12, 2025 “Leggere”
2024 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan) "Sensualita"
2023 Cortona Biennale “Omaggio a Gino Severini” XV ed. (Arezzo) Sant’ Agostino Auditorium
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 Art Museum of Art in Chianciano
2021 Palazzo Bourbon del Monte Museum, 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 Art, Pesaro ("L' intimità")
2017 MIAFair Milan 2 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, Carrousell 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")
www.claudiomontecucco.it
Details
Date of print
2015
Artist
Claudio Montecucco
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Title of artwork
Incanto
Condition
Extremely fine
Technique
Digital print
Height
26 cm
Edition
25+1 copies, 1/25, size 26x19 cm. Year 2015
Width
19 cm
Signature
Hand signed
Genre
Fine art photography
