Riccardo Monachesi

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Born and raised in Rome, in 1977 I arrived at the studio of Nino Caruso ai Coronari. The shock was immediate and total, I started to make ceramics and since then I have not stopped. Ceramic sculpture and sculpture was and is the best form of art I could ever choose to try to convey what other media could not have given me. I don't believe much in nineteenth-century inspiration that catches you with a violent raptus, but I certainly admit that making art is a mix of constant application to some suggestions that involve you for a short time or for a lifetime. In the meantime I became an architect and escaping from any temptation to "design" I discovered that the only possibility that interests me to design is the emotion I put into my work. I like to take part in themed and personal group exhibitions, if they also have a theme; I like to adapt my poetics to suggestions given by others or seize private ones. In 1981 I started exhibiting my works in the gallery, with an exhibition on Baroque in Calcata presented by Paolo Portoghesi and confronting "the public" and criticism. In 1994 an exhibition at the Bocchi Studio, presented by Walter Veltroni, completely "cleared" ceramics as a material linked to the world of the artisan to return to the subject of art. This is followed by a large number of personal and collective exhibitions, including: in 2009, a personal exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna, in 2011 the National Gallery of Modern Art acquired and placed 20 ceramics realized at four at the Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum hands with Elisa Montessori, in 2014 a solo show "Terraemota" for the Comune di Roma at the Museo delle Mura and in 2015 a collective exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art on the state of ceramic sculpture in the 21st century. Also in 2015 I created a "site specific" work for the Luigi Bernabò Brea Archaeological Museum in Lipari and two other works in the Italian Embassy in Santiago de Chile, as a result of an artist residency. 2017 coincided with 40 years of activity and was marked by a personal exhibition, curated by Francesco Paolo del Re, in Viterbo at the Ceramics Museum of Palazzo Brugiotti.

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Do ut des 4.0, detail 2022
Do ut des 4.0, detail 2022
Do ut des 4.0 2022
Do ut des 4.0 2022

Events at Rome Art Week

23 Oct-11 Nov 2023
Contemporary dRAWings 1
first annual exhibition dedicated at the contemporary drawings
Free admission
Vernissage Monday 23 Oct 2023 | 17:30
Exposition
Galleria Riccardo Boni
via in Publicolis 47 - Roma
27-29 Oct 2022
Riccardo Monachesi: "Do ut des 4.0"
The bowl contains both the significance of offering and that of receiving
Free admission
Vernissage Thursday 27 Oct 2022 | 18:30-21:00
Exposition
C.R.E.T.A. Rome
Via dei Delfini, 16/17 - Roma
29 Oct 2022 | 18:00-21:00
Meeting with the artist Riccardo Monachesi: "Do ut des 4.0"
The bowl contains both the significance of offering and that of receiving
Free admission
Event
C.R.E.T.A. Rome
Via dei Delfini, 16/17 - Roma
22 Oct 2019 | 15:30
Il contemporanea incontra l’antico, CASO o NECESSITA?
dibattito cura di Claudio Strinati e Riccardo Monachesi
Free admission
Event
Associazione Amici dell'Aventino
piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta 1 / piazza Sant'Alessio 23 - Roma
22 Oct 2019 | 15:30
Il contemporaneo incontra l’antico, CASO o NECESSITA?
Dibattito a cura di Claudio Strinati e Riccardo Monachesi
Free admission
Event
Associazione Amici dell'Aventino / Istituto Nazionale Studi Romani
piazza Cavalieri di Malta 2 - Roma
23 Oct 2019 | 09:30
CLAUSTROMANIA, scultura contemporanea nel chiostro di Sant’Alessio
Presentazione del catalogo e incontro con gli artisti
Free admission
Event
Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani
Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta 2 - Roma
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