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Art Gallery: Pordenone Montanari, An Italian Discovery | reviews, news & interviews

Art Gallery: Pordenone Montanari, An Italian Discovery

Art Gallery: Pordenone Montanari, An Italian Discovery

A reclusive painter comes out into the light. Is he a lost genius?

Pordenone Montenari: 'Il Pittore a la modella' (1978)Italian Cultural Institute

Our culture is hungry for stories of buried treasure, for the lost archive. So when something of startling value is brought blinking into the light after many years, it answers a romantic urge. Of course it doesn’t happen much any more, not in a digitised e-culture in which, like Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, you really can put a girdle round the Earth in no time at all. Something interesting has just cropped up in Italy, mind.

Our culture is hungry for stories of buried treasure, for the lost archive. So when something of startling value is brought blinking into the light after many years, it answers a romantic urge. Of course it doesn’t happen much any more, not in a digitised e-culture in which, like Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, you really can put a girdle round the Earth in no time at all. Something interesting has just cropped up in Italy, mind.

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