Claudio Montecucco - Cotto

Numbered and signed by the artist on the back of the print, artist certification, with description stamp and signature on the back passepartout.

Print on baritone Fine Art paper by Hahnemuhle 320 g/m². Mounted on a museum passepartout 3.5 cm.
Paper size 21 x 29.7 cm
Image size 26 x 19 cm.

Artist Biography

Collaborates with Galleria Artd2 Milan
Galleria Blanchaert Milan

Series "Reading" (photos not posed)
Cities unfolded as immense reading rooms for the open sky.
The depicted figures are caught casually, not posed.

started in 2003 and still underway), in which cities are presented as vast reading rooms
for the open sky, 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 cradle the reader, preserving the intimacy of
the sweetest moment from the chaos of cities.
In the case of the images presented by Montecucco, the artist has managed to give an additional meaning
to his works, which have been strengthened by the concept of reading, and thus of Culture.
The photography, with its casual readers, is the protagonist of the architectures and the magnificent works
of art scattered through our art cities; it blends with them, creating an intimate and silent dialogue
between man, art, and thought.
The depicted figures are casually caught, while absorbed in reading, often with their backs turned and constantly unaware of being part of an artwork.

Claudio Montecucco tells his project by invoking 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) "Sensuality"

2023 Cortona Biennale “Tribute to Gino Severini” XV ed. (Arezzo) Sant’ Agostino Auditorium

2023 ArtVerona (Galleria Artd2 Milan) Verona October 12–15

2023 Teatro Signorelli Cortona (Arezzo) October 14 – November 2 “Reading”

2023 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan)

2022 Chianciano Biennale Chianciano Art 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) 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 Museum, Pesaro (Environmental Historical Museum) (“Intimacy”)

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 “On the Way” (PaolaSosioGallery)

2016 "MIA Fair 2016". Milan (Galleria Romberg) ("Sensuality" #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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