Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea | Gian Marco Montesano. Mon histoire à moi

Claudio Poleschi Contemporary Art

presents

GIAN MARCO MONTESANO

Mon histoire à moi

curated by Carlo Vanoni

October 26, 2024 – January 31, 2025

Claudio Poleschi Contemporary Art

Republic of San Marino

From October 26, 2024, to January 31, 2025, the Claudio Poleschi Contemporary Art Gallery presents Mon histoire à moi, a solo exhibition by Gian Marco Montesano, curated by Carlo Vanoni. The exhibition covers fifty years of the career of one of the most significant and well-known Italian artists on the international scene.

Conceived as a broad retrospective, the exhibition gathers a selection of works at the gallery's San Marino location, offering a comprehensive vision of Montesano's artistic evolution. It spans all phases of his production, from the deeply personal research of his origins to his more recent creations, which demonstrate a constant stylistic renewal and inexhaustible creativity. With a complex and powerful visual narrative, the exhibition illustrates the various ways in which the artist has addressed the theme of historical memory and the collective imagination.

The exhibition's title, Mon histoire à moi, encapsulates its central theme: an intimate and personal narration of history, filtered through Montesano's sensitivity and imagination, and his ability to view it with a poetic eye. He transforms historical events, symbolic figures, and images from popular culture into works that transcend mere episodes, becoming instruments of reflection on collective identity and the nature of remembrance. An art imbued with memory, it is a form of storytelling that invites the viewer to look at the past with a fresh perspective, rich in emotional and intellectual nuances.

Montesano is also celebrated for his focus on the cinematic imagery of the 1930s and 1940s, which is reflected in many of his works, where suspended atmospheres and iconic references offer a reinterpretation of the themes of memory and history.

The artist's canvases, often characterized by delicate color schemes and a technique that combines rigor and lyricism, evoke scenes and characters that become symbols of crucial moments, from fascism to the resistance.

Gian Marco Montesano has managed to build a visual language dense with cultural references, capable of moving and engaging the audience. Through the skillful use of images, the artist creates a dialogue between past and present, inviting the viewer to question their own memories and the way history is narrated and remembered.

His works, so rich in insights and meanings, offer an aesthetic and intellectual experience of great impact, confronting the viewer with profound questions about identity, memory, and the significance of art as a means of historical and cultural investigation.

With his unique style and ability to span eras and languages, Montesano continues to be a fundamental presence in the contemporary scene, with works that are not just paintings, but true instruments of reflection that transcend time and space.