Sante Monachesi
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Sante Monachesi
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| Born | 1910 Macerata, Italy |
| Died | 1991 Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Education | Scuola romana, Expressionism |
| Known for | Painting, Sculpture |
| Notable work |
Evelpiuma (1970) |
| Movement | Contemporary, Futurism |
Evelpiuma (1970)
L'Attrice Americana (The American Actress, 1950)
Paesaggio (Landscape, 1955)
Nudo di Donna (Woman's Nude, 1955)
Autoritratto (Self-portrait, 1944)
Sante Monachesi (1910-1991), was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the Scuola romana (Roman School) and founder in 1932 of the Movimento Futurista nelle Marche (Futurist Movement of Marche).
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 Aeropittura (Aeropainting), in 1936 he exhibited at Biennale di Venezia and in 1937 at the World Expo of Paris.
Immediately after World War II, Monachesi did expressionist and fauve painting, also as a member of the Scuola Romana, becoming part of the group of "Balduina" with David Grazioso and Ferdinando Bellorini, but it was especially in plastic sculpture that his research became innovative. He explored new materials and compositions, and on the occasion of the Moon landing, he founded the Agrà Movement, a futurist current looking at these exalting successes of technology and thus expresses in artwork the absence of gravity, the Zero-G that by subtracting from bodies their terrestrial weight, proposes to free man and art from all conditioning.
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