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Sante Monachesi | |
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 Sante Monachesi | |
| Born | 1910 (1910) |
| Died | 1991 (aged 80–81) |
| Education | Scuola romana,Expressionism |
| Known for | Painting,Sculpture |
| Notable work | Evelpiuma (1970) L'Attrice Americana (The American Actress, 1950) |
| Movement | Contemporary,Futurism |
Sante Monachesi (1910–1991), was an Italianpainter belonging to the modern movement of theScuola romana (Roman School) and founder in 1932 of theMovimento Futurista nelle Marche (Futurist Movement ofMarche).[1]
Monachesi studied at theCentro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Experimental film centre or Italian National film school) inRome. In the 1930s he embraced Futurism with spiralist and diagonal shapes both in painting and in sculpture, experimenting withaluminium in a mobile light.
An important representative ofAeropittura (Aeropainting), in 1936 he exhibited atBiennale di Venezia and in 1937 at theWorld Expo ofParis.
Immediately afterWorld War II, Monachesi didexpressionist andfauve painting, also as a member of theScuola Romana, becoming part of the group of "Balduina" with David Grazioso and Ferdinando Bellorini, but it was especially inplasticsculpture that his research became innovative. He explored new materials and compositions, and on the occasion of theMoon landing, he founded theAgrà Movement, afuturist current looking at these exalting successes of technology and thus expresses in artwork the absence of gravity, theZero-G that by subtracting from bodies their terrestrial weight, proposes to free man and art from all conditioning.
Monachesi's pieces in colouredmethacrylate 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).[2] Perspex andevelpiume introduce two new materials into Art:rubber foam andpolymethacrylate, neglected by the contemporaryfigurative 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 theJesolo Exhibition of 1978, which Monachesi entitledTo Tie & To Dissolve.
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