Material as language
Wood, cardboard and reused surfaces are handled as semantic matter: texture carries meaning.
Montico and sustainable art
The 2023 source volumes define sustainability as a compositional discipline: recovered materials become formal structure and social statement at once.
"Montico, an environmentalist since the 1970s": a long continuity between historical and recent phases.
Political and social gaze
Works on industry and altered landscapes place beauty and warning in the same visual field.
Relation to Terminal Realism
In Guido Oldani's preface, Montico is read near Terminal Realism, where nature takes on the profile of contemporary objects. This threshold between natural and artificial is one of the most current aspects of his oeuvre.