Claudio Montecucco - Intelligenza
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Has over ten years of experience in art, specialising in post-war photography and contemporary art.
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Description from the seller
Numbered and signed print by the artist on the back, artist certification, with stamp, description and signature on the back passepartout.
Print on baritated Fine Art paper Hahnemuhle 320 g. Mounted on a museum passepartout 3.5 cm.
Card size 21x29.7 cm
Image size 26x19 cm.
Artist biography
Collaborates with Galleria Artd2 Milan
Galleria Blanchaert Milan
Series "Leggere" (photographs not posed)
The cities declined as immense reading rooms in the open air.
The represented characters are captured casually, not posed.
started in 2003 and still in progress), in which cities are presented as immense reading rooms
in the open air, whose boundaries, embracing stairs, low walls, alleys and monuments, easily become refuges
in which to surrender to one’s favorite authors. Montecucco manages to evoke that gentle, malleable atmosphere ready to welcome and care for 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 that have been strengthened by the concept of reading, and thus of Culture.
Photography with its casual readers is the protagonist of the architectures and the magnificent artworks scattered throughout our art cities; it blends with them, creating an intimate and silent dialogue between man, art and thought.
The depicted characters 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 Reads"
2025 Baf Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan) Bergamo January 10 – 12, 2025 "Leggere"
2024 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan) "Sensualita"
2023 Cortona Biennale “Omaggio a Gino Severini” XV edition (Arezzo) Sant’ Agostino Auditorium
2023 ArtVerona (Galleria Artd2 Milan) Verona October 12-15
2023 Signorelli Theatre Cortona (Arezzo) October 14 - November 2 “Leggere”
2023 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan)
2022 Chianciano Biennale Chianciano Museum of Art in Chianciano
2021 Palazzo Bourbon del Monte Monte Santa Maria Tiberina ("Leggere")
2020 LDX Artodrome Gallery Berlin (Leggere)
2019 “Fotofever, Carrousel 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 (Galleria Blanchaert) 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 Bolzano 27 December 2016 – 30 March (Paola Sosio Contemporary Art Gallery)
2017 MuSA Museum of Environmental Historical, Pesaro ("L' intimità")
2017 MIAFair Milano2 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 MILAN "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, 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 print by the artist on the back, artist certification, with stamp, description and signature on the back passepartout.
Print on baritated Fine Art paper Hahnemuhle 320 g. Mounted on a museum passepartout 3.5 cm.
Card size 21x29.7 cm
Image size 26x19 cm.
Artist biography
Collaborates with Galleria Artd2 Milan
Galleria Blanchaert Milan
Series "Leggere" (photographs not posed)
The cities declined as immense reading rooms in the open air.
The represented characters are captured casually, not posed.
started in 2003 and still in progress), in which cities are presented as immense reading rooms
in the open air, whose boundaries, embracing stairs, low walls, alleys and monuments, easily become refuges
in which to surrender to one’s favorite authors. Montecucco manages to evoke that gentle, malleable atmosphere ready to welcome and care for 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 that have been strengthened by the concept of reading, and thus of Culture.
Photography with its casual readers is the protagonist of the architectures and the magnificent artworks scattered throughout our art cities; it blends with them, creating an intimate and silent dialogue between man, art and thought.
The depicted characters 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 Reads"
2025 Baf Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan) Bergamo January 10 – 12, 2025 "Leggere"
2024 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan) "Sensualita"
2023 Cortona Biennale “Omaggio a Gino Severini” XV edition (Arezzo) Sant’ Agostino Auditorium
2023 ArtVerona (Galleria Artd2 Milan) Verona October 12-15
2023 Signorelli Theatre Cortona (Arezzo) October 14 - November 2 “Leggere”
2023 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan)
2022 Chianciano Biennale Chianciano Museum of Art in Chianciano
2021 Palazzo Bourbon del Monte Monte Santa Maria Tiberina ("Leggere")
2020 LDX Artodrome Gallery Berlin (Leggere)
2019 “Fotofever, Carrousel 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 (Galleria Blanchaert) 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 Bolzano 27 December 2016 – 30 March (Paola Sosio Contemporary Art Gallery)
2017 MuSA Museum of Environmental Historical, Pesaro ("L' intimità")
2017 MIAFair Milano2 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 MILAN "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, 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
2011
Artist
Claudio Montecucco
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Title of artwork
Intelligenza
Condition
Extremely fine
Technique
Digital print
Height
26 cm
Edition
25+1 copies, 2/25, size 26x19 cm. Year 2011
Width
19 cm
Signature
Hand signed
Genre
Fine art photography
