Sante Monachesi

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Sante Monachesi
Scuola romana, Expressionism
Known forPainting, Sculpture
Notable workEvelpiuma (1970)

L'Attrice Americana (The American Actress, 1950)
Paesaggio (Landscape, 1955)
Nudo di Donna (Woman's Nude, 1955)
Autoritratto (Self-portrait, 1944)

Ritratto di F. T. Marinetti (1939)
MovementContemporary, Futurism

Sante Monachesi (1910–1991), was an Italian

Scuola romana (Roman School) and founder in 1932 of the Movimento Futurista nelle Marche (Futurist Movement of Marche).[1]

Life and career

Monachesi studied at the

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Experimental film centre or Italian National film school) in Rome. In the 1930s he embraced Futurism with spiralist and diagonal shapes both in painting and in sculpture, experimenting with aluminium
in a mobile light.

An important representative of

World Expo of Paris
.

Immediately after

Zero-G
that by subtracting from bodies their terrestrial weight, proposes to free man and art from all conditioning.

Monachesi's pieces in coloured

rubber foam and polymethacrylate, neglected by the contemporary figurative
language until 1959.

Monachesi introduced "nomadic sculptures", where the artist ties and melts the foam sheet, continuously creating new forms and shapes. They were defined "primary forms of matter and cosmos" by art critic Franco Passoni,[3] well qualifies the Jesolo Exhibition of 1978, which Monachesi entitled To Tie & To Dissolve.

Selected exhibitions

  • Ancona 1970, Galleria dei Portici: "Sante Monachesi"
  • Jesolo 1978, "Legare e sciogliere" (To Tie & To Dissolve)
  • Milan 1982, Palazzo Reale Anni Trenta: "Arte e Cultura in Italia"
  • Civitanova Marche 1999, Chiesa di S. Agostino: "Monachesi. Gli anni Quaranta e Cinquanta"
  • Rome 2006, National Gallery of Modern Art: "Sante Monachesi – Perspex e Evelpiuma 1959–1969"

Bibliography

  • (in Italian) Franco Desideri (ed.), Architettura di Sante Monachesi, Margutta Duemila, Rome, 1958
  • Emilio Villa, Giancarlo Politi, Sante Monachesi: Sculture, Alfieri, Bologna, 1965
  • (in Italian) Emilio Villa (ed.), Sante Monachesi, Carte Segrete, Rome, 1970
  • (in Italian) Emilio Villa, Elverio Maurizi, Monachesi, La Nuova Foglio, Pollenza, 1975
  • (in Italian) Franco Cagnetta, Monachesi sconosciuto, Edizioni La Gradiva, Rome, 1977
  • (in Italian) Franco Cagnetta (ed.), Monachesi, Edizioni La Gradiva, Rome, 1977
  • (in Italian) Franco Cagnetta (ed.), Cento scritti di e su Monachesi, Edizioni La Gradiva, Rome, 1978
  • (in Italian) Franco Cagnetta, Legare e sciogliere: l'Evelpiuma e l'universo agrà di Monachesi, Marsilio, Venice, 1978
  • (in Italian) Simonetta Lux (ed.), Sante Monachesi, 1910–1991: l'insolenza, Giorgio Corbelli, Brescia, 1996
  • (in Italian) Stefano Papetti (ed.), Luce Monachesi, Giorgio De Marchis, Monachesi: Gli anni Quaranta e Cinquanta, Federico Motta, Milan, 1999
  • (in Italian) Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli, Marina Gargiulo (eds.), Sante Monachesi: Perspex e Evelpiuma, 1959–1969, De Luca Editori d'Arte, Rome, 2007

External links

See also

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Notes

  1. ^ Cf. E. Villa ed., Sante Monachesi, Rome, 1970, Intro.
  2. ^ Cf. S. Papetti, ed., Monachesi. Gli anni Quaranta e Cinquanta (Monachesi. The 1940s and 1950s), 1999.
  3. ^ Cf. F. Passoni, Art and plastics, 1975.
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