Giancarlo Montuschi

An artist from Faenza, who has long since moved to lower Tuscany, he is the anti-character par excellence.

A painter, ceramist and sculptor of great merit, he expresses himself with a naive, fairy-tale-like and essentially fantastic language, with alchemical-esoteric undertones.

The fact of having been born (in 1952) in Faenza, a land of excellence for ceramics, and of having "breathed" during his formative years, the revitalizing ferments generated by the influence of Pop Art on the young artists of that era, highlighted, in Montuschi, two complementary and formally different expressive lines.

He took part in numerous exhibitions during the 1980s: in Faenza, Florence, Arezzo, Verona, Bologna, Bergamo, Turin, Bassano, Sweden and Zagreb.

In the following decade, he began collaborating with Kens'Art in Florence, followed by the exhibitions "The Art of Living" in New York and "Scarperentola," a traveling exhibition in Milan, London, and New York; and a solo show at the Saint-Emillion Ceramics Museum (Bordeaux). He also participated in various art expos in Bari, Montichiari, and Padua, at ArteFiera in Bologna, at EuropArt in Geneva, and at the Spoleto Festival. He held numerous solo exhibitions in Rome in the early 2000s, followed by Perugia, Florence (Galleria Immaginaria), Prato, and Milan, while his participation in fairs intensified: Vicenza Arte, Expo in Bari, and Genoa, the International Art Fair in Innsbruck, and West Lake Expo in China. He was invited to the 51st Venice Biennale, at the Latin American Institute Pavilion.