Claudio Montecucco - Esercitarsi

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

Print on Fine Art baritata paper. Mounted on a museum-style 3.5 cm passepartout.
Paper size 21 x 29.7 cm
Image size 26 x 19 cm.

Artist Biography

Collaborates with Galleria Artd2 Milan
Galleria Blanchaert Milan


Series "Leggere" (photographs not posed)

Cities declinated as immense reading rooms open to the sky.
The characters depicted are caught casually, not posed.
started in 2003 and still ongoing), in which cities are presented as vast reading rooms
whose boundaries, embracing stairs, low walls, alleys and monuments, easily become refuges
in which to surrender to one’s preferred authors. Montecucco manages to evoke
that mellow, malleable atmosphere ready to welcome and nurture 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, which have been enhanced by the concept of reading, hence of Culture.
Photography with its casual readers is the protagonist of the architectures and the magnificent artworks
scattered through our art cities, it blends with them, creating an intimate, silent dialogue
between man, art and thought.
The figures depicted are caught casually, 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 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 “Leggere”

2024 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan) "Sensualita"

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

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

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

2023 BAF Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan)

2022 Biennale Chianciano Museo d’Arte di Chianciano

2021 Museo 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 (GalleriaBlanchaert) Sensualita'

2019 Salone Libro di Torino (“Chi legge”) (ArtPhoto)

2019 “Welcome to Japan” (Hysteriart Gallery Milan) (Tokyo)

2017 “Wopart" PhotographyArtFair Lugano (GalleriaBlanchaert)

2017 Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera Milan (Galleria Jean Blanchaert)

2017 “Sensualita'#2 Bormio 27 December 2016 – 30 March (Paola Sosio Contemporary Art Gallery)

2017 Museo MuSA Museo Storico Ambientale, Pesaro (“L' intimita'")

2017 “MIAFair Milano2 9 - 13 March 2017 Galleria Blanchaert (“Infinity”)

2017 Kasa dei Libri Milano (“Alla ricerca del lettore perduto”)

2017 Fondazione Cariarte Perugia (“White”)

2016 VOGUE PHOTO FESTIVAL MILANO “In cammino ” (PaolaSosioGallery)

2016 "MIA Fair 2016". Milano (Galleria Romberg) (“Sensualita “#1)

2016 Museo Storico Ambientale, Pesaro (“Leggere)

2016 Museo Civico di Arte Contemporanea Palazzo della Penna, Perugia (“Leggere Perugia”)

2015“Fotofever, Carrousell 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”)

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