Artist from Faenza, transplanted to lower Tuscany for some time, he is the anti-character par excellence.
Painter, ceramist-sculptor of quality, he expresses himself with a naive, fairy-tale and substantially fantastic language, with alchemical-esoteric veins.
The fact of being born (in 1952) in Faenza, a land of excellence for ceramics, and of having "breathed" in his formative years the revitalizing ferment generated by the influence of Pop Art on the young artists of that era, has highlighted, in Montuschi, two complementary and formally different expressive lines.
He took part in numerous exhibitions throughout the 1980s: in Faenza, Florence, Arezzo, Verona, Bologna, Bergamo, Turin, Bassano, Sweden and Zagreb. In the following decade, the collaboration with Kens'Art of Florence began, then came the exhibitions “The Art of living” in New York and “Scarperentola” traveling to Milan, London and New York; and the solo exhibition at the Saint Emillion ceramic museum (Bordeaux).
He also participates in various editions of the art expo of Bari, Montichiari and Padua, at the ArteFiera in Bologna, at the EuropArt in Geneva, at the Spoleto festival. Numerous solo exhibitions in Rome in the early 2000s, then in Perugia, Florence (Immaginaria gallery), Prato, Milan, while attendance at the fair increased: Vicenza Arte, Expo in Bari, and Genoa, International Art Fair in Innsbruck , West Lake Expo in China. He was invited to the 51st Venice Biennial, Latin American Institute Pavilion.
They wrote about him:
Marcello Venturoli, Claudio Spadoni, Giuliano Serafini, Angelo Dragone, Massimo Duranti, Francesco Gallo, Emidio de Albentiis, Robertomaria Siena, Pier Paolo Castellucci, Nicola Nuti, Susanna Ragionieri, Michele Loffredo, Giorgio Bertozzi, Rino Cardone, Nicoletta Zanella, Alan Querre, Jeanne Rossi Lecerf, C.Grante, , Ivan Teobaldelli, Elisabetta Mastrocola, Rita Olivieri, Cristina Vignoli, Giorgio Borio, Gianni Milani, , Eugenio Giannì, Marco salvi, Mario Rotta, Roberta Fiorini, Francesca Ancona, Alessandra Angelucci, Francesco Giulio Farachi, MariaPia Cappello, Marco Botti, Cristina Palmieri
Delving into Montuschi's poetics for a moment, it is necessary to start from the trace that the artist himself has indicated several times: the reference to a text by Jorge Luis Borges, an epilogue from Artificer. It's worth mentioning again:
“ A man sets himself the task of designing the world. As the years pass, he populates a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fish, homes, instruments, stars, horses and people. Shortly before dying, he discovers that that patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his face."
The concept of identification between man, nature, the environment and everything visible with itself is striking.
Well, for years Montuschi has been designing his world which is located beyond the visible, with a faceless presence (and that of his peers) that wanders in constructed landscapes that populates with pieces of nature placed haphazardly, clinging, emerging from nothing , decorating, non-decorative, deformed….. (extracted from a text by Massimo Duranti)