Claudio Montecucco - Statuario, Pagine - Two Prints
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2 photographs proposed together from the series "Reading, numbered works and signed by the artist on the back of the print, authentication by the artist, with stamp, description and signature on the back of the passepartout.
Fine Art print on baritated Hahnemuhle 320 g paper. Mounted on a 3.5 cm museum passe-partout.
Paper size 21x29.7 cm
Image size 26x19 cm. "Pages"
Image size 20x20 cm. "Statuario"
Artist Biography
Collaborates with Galleria Artd2 Milano and Galleria Blanchaert Milano
Series "Reading" (photographs not posed)
Cities declinated as immense open-air reading rooms.
The depicted characters are casually caught, not posed.
started in 2003 and still ongoing), in which cities are presented as immense open-air 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 and malleable atmosphere ready to welcome and tend 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 succeeded in giving an additional meaning to his works, which have been validated by the concept of reading, hence 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 merges with them, creating an intimate and silent dialogue between man, 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 by resorting to 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 January 10–12, 2025 "Reading"
2024 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milano) "Sensuality"
2023 Cortona Biennale "Homage to 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 Biennale Museo d’Arte di 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 - Milan (Galleria Blanchaert) Sensuality
2019 Salone del Libro di Torino ("Who reads?") (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 Environmental Historical Museum, Pesaro ("L’intimita'")
2017 MIAFair Milan2 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 Move" (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 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
2 photographs proposed together from the series "Reading, numbered works and signed by the artist on the back of the print, authentication by the artist, with stamp, description and signature on the back of the passepartout.
Fine Art print on baritated Hahnemuhle 320 g paper. Mounted on a 3.5 cm museum passe-partout.
Paper size 21x29.7 cm
Image size 26x19 cm. "Pages"
Image size 20x20 cm. "Statuario"
Artist Biography
Collaborates with Galleria Artd2 Milano and Galleria Blanchaert Milano
Series "Reading" (photographs not posed)
Cities declinated as immense open-air reading rooms.
The depicted characters are casually caught, not posed.
started in 2003 and still ongoing), in which cities are presented as immense open-air 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 and malleable atmosphere ready to welcome and tend 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 succeeded in giving an additional meaning to his works, which have been validated by the concept of reading, hence 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 merges with them, creating an intimate and silent dialogue between man, 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 by resorting to 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 January 10–12, 2025 "Reading"
2024 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milano) "Sensuality"
2023 Cortona Biennale "Homage to 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 Biennale Museo d’Arte di 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 - Milan (Galleria Blanchaert) Sensuality
2019 Salone del Libro di Torino ("Who reads?") (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 Environmental Historical Museum, Pesaro ("L’intimita'")
2017 MIAFair Milan2 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 Move" (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 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
2016
Artist
Claudio Montecucco
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Title of artwork
Statuario, Pagine - Two Prints
Condition
Extremely fine
Technique
Digital print
Height
20 cm
Edition
25+1 copies, 1/25, size 20x20 cm. Year 2016 25+1 copies, 1/25, size 26x19 cm. Year 2017
Width
20 cm
Signature
Hand signed
Genre
Fine art photography
