Giancarlo Montuschi

Giancarlo Montuschi was born at Faenza (Ravenna) in 1952. He lives in southern Tuscany and is a painter, ceramist and sculptor. His artistic training takes place in Bologna, where he attended and graduated from the Art School. At the age of just twenty he held his first one-man show at the Galleria Sire of Faenza.
With his works produced in the mid Seventies he inaugurated a post-Pop language, influenced by the changes wrought in Italian figurative expression by the Pop Art of the Sixties.
1980 was a year that marked a turning-point and a profound change in Montuschi’s poetics and communication.
In this time his naïve, fairy-tale and substantially imaginative language is enriched with alchemical-esoteric veins, launching a phase of work centred essentially on alchemy understood as a philosophic process and one of material change.
The work of Giancarlo Montuschi transports the viewer to a world of dreams and excitement, in wich the importance of simplicity is underlined. Pure vivacious colors and the beauty of nature and human and intimate relationships prevail. In Montuschi's worlds, we can cure all with love.
In frontal collision with the world of Disney and Comics, Montuschi creates a new and original pop expression.
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He participated in numerous exhibits in the eighties in Faenza, Florence, Arezzo, Verona, Bologna, Bergamo, Torino, Bassano, Switzerland and in Zagabria. The following ten years, he began to collaborate with Kens'Art of Florence, and afterward began the exhibitions "The Art of living" in New York and "Scarperentola" Touring to Milan, London and New York, as well as the solo exhibition at the museum of ceramics of Saint Emillion (Bordeaux). He participated also in different editions of Expo Arte of Bari, Montichiari and Padova, at 'ArteFiera of Bologna, at EuropArt of Ginevra, and at the festival of Spoleto. Numerous the solo exhibitions in Rome in the early years of 2000, then in Perugia, Florence (Gallery Immaginaria), Prato, Milano, while his presence in the art trade fairs intensified: Vicenza Arte, Expo Arte of Bari, and Genova, Fiera internazionale dell'arte in Innsbruck, West Lake Expo in China. He was invited to the 51° Venice Biennale, Padiglione Istituto Latino Americano.
Recently he exhibited in Palermo (Galleria Liart) and at the art fair of Reggio Emilia; and partecipated to the exhibition organized by the Italian Institute of Culture of Finland and the Circle of Italian in Finland, Leppavaara.
In Innsbruck, Contempor...