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"Reading" The idea of immortalizing people in candid shots, without their being aware while reading in the many different settings offered by the historic centers of different cities, was developed by Montecucco in a very special way due to his knowledgeable use of black and white, and above all, to the heightened sensitivity that distinguishes him and which unites his passion for photography, literature and architecture. Montecucco manages to bring out that warm and pliant atmosphere that is ready to welcome and minister to the reader, preserving the intimacy of such a sweet moment. And it is in this way that his photographs, never posed but rigorously spontaneous, hardly seem to belong to modern times: they almost seem divorced from the chaos of the city surrounding the unsuspecting subject. City is then transformed into a huge open-air reading room, whose borders, spanning stairs, walls, alleys and monuments, easily become shelters in which the readers can indulge in their favorite authors. Photographs that make you think, dream and wish to participate in the collective ritual, and yet allude to reading outdoors. At the same time, they make you wonder what the subjects are reading, and what they were experiencing while doing so. Claudio Montecucco tells of his project by referring to the words of Robert Doisneau: «What I was trying to show was a world in which I would feel at home, where the people would be kind, where I would find the tenderness that I would hope to receive. My photographs were the proof that this world could exist». Anime a nudo 2017 project "Reading" Limited Edition 5+1pa 2/5
2017
Black & White on Paper
5
17.3 W x 12.6 H x 0.1 D in
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Biography ● Born in Perugia Claudio Montecucco graduated as a technician in mechanical engineering and received his three-year degree as a CAD disigner. He enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture in Florence, though after several exams, he abandoned his studies to work in the family jewelry store as a jewelry designer and pursue his piano studies and get diploma late. A lover of all art forms, he cites his favoirite authors with whom he identifies such as Robert Doisneau “What I was trying to show was a world in which I felt at home, where people were kind. Where I could find the tenderness that I hope to receive. My photography were the proof that this world could exist”. Being a reserved man and little inclined to being observed Montecucco had been taking photographs that permitted him to express something stongly personal, images guided by the intuition, by his search so called “elusive moment” that moment he would like to capture everyday walking down the street with his camera. ● “ I try to capture images of a routine life, what seems to be at a first glance to be banal and routine I try to lift it to a new form to a new interpretation. I take photos almost anything I see and worth it, everything is interesting to me, life itself even in its humble monotony. I was born introvert,introvertedness that open to a street. I search for happiness in catching a moment -“elusive moment”. My heart and my shot beats as one. “ M.Thompson Nati ● Claudio Montecucco tries in all his projects to unite three arts such as painting, architecture and photography in one “form” and tackle an arduous task of photography so called a capture “elusive moment” and elevate it into the art. When you define Montecucco as a classic photographer, you can not limit him to that simple description, which you are able to glean from observing his photographs, so carefully arranged as to seem from another time, but this is how he highlights his choice of field, which is equally esthetic but even more intimately psychological. It is no coincidence that from his favourite authors he cites those that many years ago walked down the Parisian streets, not so much to capture reality as to be seduced by it. That genre has been defined as “Photographie humaniste” because it looked at man with indulgence and trust. The same used by Claudio Montecucco when he goes down the streets looking for strange and unrepeatable moments where something almost imperceptible happens...
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