Claudio Costa
Claudio Costa (born June 22, 1942 in Tirana , † July 2, 1995 in Genoa ) was an Italian object artist , painter and engraver .
life and work
Costa was born the son of Italian guest workers in Tirana, Albania . His parents went back to Italy three years after his birth. Claudio Costa grew up in Chiavari and Cicagna in the province of Genoa . In 1961 he enrolled to study architecture at the Milan Polytechnic , but devoted himself more and more to painting. In 1964, Costa received a scholarship as an engraver for the Hayter Atelier on Rue Daguerre in Paris . There he met Marcel Duchamp , who had an engraving of his work "The Pipe Smoker" made. In 1965 he married Anita Zerio and had a child with her. In the gallery La Bertesca in Genoa the first solo exhibition as a painter took place 1969th Objects were also created from 1970. Claudio Costa traveled to Morocco in 1973 and to Malindi in Kenya in 1990 . In 1975 Costa converted an empty farmhouse in Monteghirfo near Genoa into the Museum of Active Anthropology . Together with the psychiatrist Antonio Slavich, he founded the Institute for Unaware Materials and Forms in 1989 and organized art therapy workshops in a psychiatry in Quarto dei Mille .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1986: Arte e Alchimia Biennale di Venezia , Venice, curator Arturo Schwarz
- 1981: Myth & Ritual Kunsthaus Zürich , with u. a. Joseph Beuys , curator Erika Billetter
- 1977: The re-digging of forgotten and better cultures documenta 6 , Kassel
- 1974: Skin color table , securing evidence : archeology and memory in the Kunstverein in Hamburg , curator Günter Metken .
Individual evidence
- ^ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1, Page 258: Painting, Plastic / Environment, Performance, 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
- ↑ Artantide Claudio Costa , accessed on February 6, 2015 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Costa, Claudio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian object artist, painter and engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tirana , Albania |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2nd 1995 |
| Place of death | Genoa , Italy |