Claudio Montecucco - Il mondo

Numbered and signed work by the artist on the back of the frame, with artist's certification.
With stamp, description, and signature on the back.

Print on Hahnemuhle 320g Fine Art paper. Mounted on a 3.5 cm passepartout, with a shabby white frame and glass.
Paper size 21x29.7
Image size 26x19 cm.
External dimension with frame 29x36 cm.

Artist biography

Collaborate with Galleria Artd2 Milan
Blanchaert Gallery Milan



Reading Series
Cities conceived as vast open-air reading rooms.
The characters depicted are captured casually, not posed.

started in 2003 and still ongoing), in which cities are presented as immense reading rooms
open-air, whose borders, which embrace stairs, walls, alleys and monuments, easily become shelters
in which to indulge in your favorite authors. Montecucco manages to bring out
that mild and 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 managed to give a further meaning
to his works which have supported the concept of reading, and therefore of Culture.
Photography with its casual readers is the protagonist of the architecture and magnificent works
of art scattered throughout our cities of art, merges with them creating an intimate and silent dialogue
between man, art and thought.
The characters represented are caught casually, while they are absorbed in reading, often of
shoulders and constantly unaware of being part of a work of art.

Claudio Montecucco talks about his project using the words of Robert Doisneau.
«What I was trying to show was a world where I would feel good, where people would be
Gentle states, where I would find the tenderness I hoped to receive. My photos were like a
prove that this world can exist.

Recent exhibitions

2025 Civic Museum of Villa Colloredo Mels in Recanati, March 2 to June 8 "Infinite Readings"

2025 Baf Bergamo ArtFair (Galleria Artd2 Milan) Bergamo January 10 – 12, 2025 "Read"

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

2023 Cortona Biennale "Homage to Gino Severini" 15th edition (Arezzo) Sant’ Agostino Auditorium

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

2023 Signorelli Theater Cortona (Arezzo) October 14 to November 2 "Reading"

2023 BAF Bergamo ArtFair(Galleria Artd2 Milan)

2022 Chianciano Biennale Chianciano Art Museum

2021 Museo Palazzo Bourbon del Monte Monte Santa Maria Tiberina("Reading")

2020 LDX Artodrome Gallery Berlin (Leggere)

2019 'Fotofever, Carrousel du Louvre'. Paris (Artd2Gallery)

2019 Civic Art Gallery Museum 'F. Podesti' Ancona 'Reading'

2019 Civic Museum Pinacoteca Crociani Montepulciano Siena ('Reading')

2019 Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong (GalleriaArtd2)

2019 MIA ArtFair - Milan (Galleria Blanchaert) Sensuality

2019 Turin Book Fair ('Who's Reading') (ArtPhoto)

2019 "Welcome to Japan" (Hysteriart Gallery Milano) (Tokyo)

2017 "Wopart" Photography Art Fair Lugano (Galleria Blanchaert)

2017 Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan (Jean Blanchaert Gallery)

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

2017 MuSA Museum, Historic Environment Museum, Pesaro ("The Intimacy")

2017 MIAFair Milano2, March 9-13, 2017, Galleria Blanchaert ('Infinity')

2017 Bookcase of Libraries Milan (“In Search of the Lost Reader”)

2017 Cariarte Foundation Perugia (“White”)

2016 VOGUE PHOTO FESTIVAL MILAN "On the way" (Paola Sosio Gallery)

2016 "MIA Fair 2016". Milan (Galleria Romberg) ("Sensuality" #1)

2016 Historical Environmental Museum, Pesaro (Reading)

2016 Civic Museum of Contemporary Art Palazzo della Penna, Perugia ("Reading Perugia")

2015 "Fotofever, Carousel of the Louvre". Paris (Romberg Gallery)

2015 'MIA Art Fair Milano2, April 10-13, 2015, Galleria Blanchaert (Infinity)

2014 MIA&DFair - Marina Bay Sands – Singapore (Galleria Blanchaert)

2013 Civic Museum of Contemporary Art Palazzo della Penna, Perugia ('Umbrialibri 2013')

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