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Massimo Marchesotti (Milan, 1 June 1935) is an Italian choir director and painter. He began his musical studies at a very young age and graduated from the G. Read the full biography

Massimo Marchesotti (Milan, 1 June 1935) is an Italian choir director and painter. He began his musical studies at a very young age and graduated from the G. Verdi conservatory in Milan. Painter by profession, music is his great passion. In the field of ethnomusicology he collects various sound documents in the field and recovers regional popular songs of enormous historical interest, helping to keep musical and poetic documents of enormous importance alive. Since the sixties he has participated in collective and personal exhibitions which have given him significant national and international success. He was awarded the Gold Medal in 1971 by the President of the Chamber of Deputies at the MTI71 International Contemporary Art Competition (the painting is located in Montecitorio). An attitude of in-depth analysis and investigation into the condition of man in the context of society will take over in him, a theme that he will never abandon. In 1986 CONI entrusted him with the task of organizing 45 Painters illustrate sport held at the Foro Italico in Rome, on that occasion he worked with Ennio Calabria, Franco Angeli, Titina Maselli. He exhibited in Berlin with the Bergfelde Group, refining his engraving techniques with this group. The meeting with the writer Luigi Santucci which will allow him to illustrate one of his stories. In 1991 he joined the "Raccolto" association founded by Daniele Oppi, Giorgio Seveso, Mario Spinella and other Italian artists and intellectuals. He has held personal exhibitions in Milan, Verona, Vicenza, Siena, Padua, Bologna, Barcelona, ​​Lisbon, Berlin, Trento, Merano, New York, Rome, Vienna, Venice, Catania, Sydney and in several other cities in France and Denmark. Attracted by the light of the Northern countries, for almost twenty years he has been conducting an in-depth investigation into the landscape and the figure which leads him to create intensely evocative oils, drawings and watercolours. In this context, some Danish galleries are interested in his painting and exhibit his works.