Sante Monachesi

SANTE MONACHESI (Macerata, 1910 - Rome, 1991).
"I muri ciechi di Parigi".
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner.
It has a small tear in the upper left area of the canvas, as well as small damp stains.
Measurements: 70,5 x 50 cm.
Sante Monachesi was an Italian painter who belonged to the modern movement of the Scuola Romana and founder of the Futurist Movement of the Marche in 1932. Monachesi studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. In the 1930s he embraced Futurism with spiral and diagonal forms in both painting and sculpture, experimenting with aluminium in a moving light. Immediately after World War II, Monachesi did expressionist and fauve painting, also as a member of the Scuola Romana, becoming part of the "Balduina" group 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 which sees these successes as exalting technology and, therefore, expresses in the work of art the absence of gravity, the Zero-G which, by subtracting from their bodies their earthly weight, proposes to free man and art from all conditioning. An important representative of Aeropittura, in 1936 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale and in 1937 at the World Exhibition in Paris.