Sante Monachesi (1910–1991), was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the ''

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(Roman School)'' and founder in 1932 of the ''Movimento Futurista nelle Marche (

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Movement of Marche)''.

Life and career

Monachesi studied at the ''

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'' (Experimental film centre or Italian National film school) in

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. In the 1930s he embraced Futurism with spiralist and diagonal shapes both in painting and in sculpture, experimenting with

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in a mobile light. An important representative of ''

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'' (Aeropainting), in 1936 he exhibited at

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and in 1937 at the

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. Immediately after

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, Monachesi did

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and fauve painting, also as a member of the ''

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'', becoming part of the group of "Balduina" with David Grazioso and Ferdinando Bellorini, but it was especially in

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that his research became innovative. He explored new materials and compositions, and on the occasion of the

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, he founded the ''Agrà Movement'', a

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current looking at these exalting successes of technology and thus expresses in artwork the absence of gravity, the

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that by subtracting from bodies their terrestrial weight, proposes to free man and art from all conditioning. Monachesi's pieces in coloured

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are truly dynamic action-sculptures: "... the artist moulds the transparent and fluorescent perpex sheet, and succeeds in capturing and freeing the void of the full figure it circumscribes," (Floriano de Santis, 1990). Perspex and ''evelpiume'' introduce two new materials into Art: 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,Cf. F. Passoni
''Art and plastics''
1975. well qualifies the

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Exhibition of 1978, which Monachesi entitled ''To Tie & To Dissolve''.

Selected exhibitions

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1970, Galleria dei Portici: "Sante Monachesi" *

1978, "Legare e sciogliere" ''(To Tie & To Dissolve)'' *

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1982, Palazzo Reale Anni Trenta: "Arte e Cultura in Italia" *

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1999, Chiesa di S. Agostino: "Monachesi. Gli anni Quaranta e Cinquanta" *

2006, National Gallery of Modern Art: "Sante Monachesi – Perspex e Evelpiuma 1959–1969"

Bibliography

* Franco Desideri (ed.), ''Architettura di Sante Monachesi'', Margutta Duemila,

, 1958 * Emilio Villa, Giancarlo Politi, ''Sante Monachesi: Sculture'', Alfieri,

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...

, 1965 * Emilio Villa (ed.), ''Sante Monachesi'', Carte Segrete,

, 1970 * Emilio Villa, Elverio Maurizi, ''Monachesi'', La Nuova Foglio, Pollenza, 1975 * Franco Cagnetta, ''Monachesi sconosciuto'', Edizioni La Gradiva,

, 1977 * Franco Cagnetta (ed.), ''Monachesi'', Edizioni La Gradiva,

, 1977 * Franco Cagnetta (ed.), ''Cento scritti di e su Monachesi'', Edizioni La Gradiva,

, 1978 * Franco Cagnetta, ''Legare e sciogliere: l'Evelpiuma e l'universo agrà di Monachesi'', Marsilio,

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, 1978 * Simonetta Lux (ed.), ''Sante Monachesi, 1910–1991: l'insolenza'', Giorgio Corbelli,

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo ...

, 1996 * Stefano Papetti (ed.), Luce Monachesi, Giorgio De Marchis, ''Monachesi: Gli anni Quaranta e Cinquanta'', Federico Motta,

, 1999 * Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli, Marina Gargiulo (eds.), ''Sante Monachesi: Perspex e Evelpiuma, 1959–1969'', De Luca Editori d'Arte,

, 2007

External links

Tate Gallery

entry
''Roman School''
art note on the initial 19th century movement. Accessed 24 May 2011
Art Videos for Sante Monachesi
Accessed 25 May 2011
Sante Monachesi
bio on the Marche Region portal.
Museum of the Scuola Romana
official site
Museum's excerpts of Scuola
Accessed 24 May 2011
Scuola romana
dedicated website
Glossary entry

''Press Release'', 14 October 2006
National Gallery of Modern Art,

. Accessed 25 May 2011

Notes

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Monachesi, Sante Italian Futurist painters Futurist sculptors 1910 births 1991 deaths Avant-garde art Dada Italian Futurism Italian male painters Italian male sculptors Italian contemporary artists Modern painters Modern sculptors Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia alumni 20th-century Italian painters 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists

Life and career

Selected exhibitions

Bibliography

External links

See also

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