ANDREA SERIO & MICHELE MONTANARI
Vedute Nascoste
From 16 November to 8 December 2024
The Exhibition
"HIDDEN VIEWS" is an encounter between the works of the illustrator Andrea Serio and the poetic texts of Michele Montanari. This exhibition, curated by Roberto Pagnani, is the second gallery experience after "PSICOGIARDINI" (Pescara, October 2022) which strengthens the long figurative and meta-literary dialogue between the author - among others - of "RAPSODIA IN BLU" (Oblomov Edizioni 2019) and Michele Montanari, a lyricist-writer "inclined to verse".
Andrea Serio presents twelve of his original unpublished works - inspired by urban architecture and the empty/full dualism in drawing - accompanied by as many poetic texts by Michele Montanari, both drawing from productions of the current year.
The artists
Andrea Serio was born in Carrara in 1973, he is an internationally renowned illustrator and cartoonist.
He is the author of graphic novels, children's books, posters, numerous covers of novels, magazines and records.
Among his most recent collaborations: Google, Emergency, Penguin Books, Gallimard, Einaudi, Feltrinelli, Bayard, Albin Michel, Linus, The Parisianer, Harper Collins.
2022 Boscarato Award for Best Cover and Best Illustrator 2022 for ArtTribune.
In 2023 he was selected among fifty international comic artists, the only Italian, to celebrate the Fiftieth anniversary of the Festival International de la BD in Angoulême.
He is the artistic director and teacher of the International School of Comics in Turin.
Michele Montanari was born in Faenza on August 16, 1970, he is an author, editor "incline al verso", lyricist for music; he collaborated (still collaborates) with the singer John De Leo, the theater actor Roberto Scappin and Andrea Serio himself with whom he made his debut as a poet in Psicogiardini in 2022, crowning a long exchange "of views and visions".
He has been writing articles for Gli Stati Generali since 2016, recently meeting the pages of Pangea, "adventurous magazine of culture & ideas".
