Costa Vece

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Costa Vece (born May 10, 1969 in Herisau ) is a Swiss video and installation artist .

Live and act

Life

Costa Mauro Vece grew up in a migrant family in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden ; his mother was Greek and his father was Italian. From 1989 to 1994 he attended the F + F School for Experimental Design in Zurich . In 1998 he had his first solo exhibition at the Helmhaus in Zurich , and in 1999 he was represented at the 48th Venice Biennale . He received the " Federal Prize for Free Art " (1997–1999), received numerous other grants and took part in many international group exhibitions. Individual works can be found in the Kunsthaus Zürich , in the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art and in the Hauser & Wirth gallery . Many of his installations deal with the themes of wandering and migration .

Costa Vece lives and works in Berlin and Zurich.

Artistic work

"Revolucion Patriotismo" and "La Promessa"

Costa Veces' series Revolucion Patriotismo , whose subject area asks questions about terms such as home, migration, popular feeling and the struggle for freedom, a work in progress , was shown as a project in several countries. They are installations that consist of barricaded and inaccessible places (for example with barbed wire). These include objects and tents with national flags and slogans, from which the visitor feels excluded, but which can also represent transportable places of refuge and are reminiscent of refugee camps in crisis areas. These installation signs of homelessness, which on the other hand also show that one can revolt against the situation, are supplemented by documentary photos and newspaper clippings in the book, the title of which is borrowed from Two Main Streets in Mexico City . Veces migration background often plays a role in his work, for example in the film La Promessa , which accompanies his mother on a walk in Appenzell . In broken Swiss German , she describes how difficult it was to raise her children with poorly paid work. This film work "functions as an exciting social document of the times, at the same time it vibrates from the relationship between the mother, who came to Appenzell from abroad, and the son who made the leap abroad as a respected artist" .

“La fin du monde” and Veces art

For the 49th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen in 2003, Vece collected pallets, boxes and cardboard boxes in department stores and supermarkets in the city and used them to build a lighthouse for one day in a cinema. From these containers, which transported the goods of the world, images were projected onto the wall, "which rather spread an apocalyptic mood". In the series “ Schirn Re: set”, in which pioneering works by young artists are shown in Frankfurt that were only briefly presented to the public once, Vece rebuilt the nine-meter-high cardboard lighthouse with the title La fin du monde in 2004 . The video sequences that he broadcast from it came partly from films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Koyaanisqatsi . “The lighthouse, a symbol of all sorts of immaterial things like hope and wanderlust, becomes part of the globalized world of trade.” His exhibition Heaven can wait (2006) attracted attention , but Swiss television said “his most beautiful installation, Mama Goes to Art , was shown at the Venice Biennale ” . The art critic Claudia Spinelli commented on his art work in Weltwoche : “Costa Vece is articulating because he wants to make us think. With Thomas Hirschhorn and Gianni Motti [...], he belongs to the growing group of Swiss artists whose art is socio-politically motivated and - because it is nourished from a personal background - is absolutely credible. "

Quote

  • “The way I work is that I take a lot of photos and use the photos to develop a lot of my work. I write down the ideas and make sketches. But I also watch a lot of films and when I see scenes that interest me, I copy them out and edit them. [...] My work is about conveying a certain feeling, something that triggers something, such as anger, melancholy, a feeling of happiness or a feeling of perplexity. Something human. " (Costa Vece in an interview with Patrick Schaefer.)

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2012: Kunstraum Kreuzlingen
  • 2006: Solothurn Art Museum
  • 2006: Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
  • 2005: Galleria Franco Noero, Turin
  • 2004: Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt / M.
  • 2004: Center d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
  • 2004: Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
  • 2002: Art Statements , Art Basel Miami
  • 2001: Look back in anger , Migros Museum for Contemporary Art , Zurich
  • 2001: Gallery Peter Kilchmann, Zurich

Group exhibitions

literature

Books and exhibition catalogs

  • Costa Vece: Revolucion - Patriotismo , edited by Axel Lapp, The Green Box, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-941644-34-2
  • Costa Vece, Rayelle Niemann, Sabine Rusterholz, dark days , Edition Fink, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-906086-95-X
  • Costa Vece: Works from 1992–2002 , published by Rein Wolfs, Edition Unikate, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-908617-15-4

Secondary literature

  • Marion Bornschier: Great Hour Art: Art and Bread. Thomas Hirschhorn, Shirana Shahbazi , Costa Vece - artist careers . Movie. SF 1 2007
  • Rayelle Niemann: From outside and inside . In: Costa Vece. Dark Days . Solothurn Art Museum. edition fink, Zurich 2006. ISBN 3-906086-95-X
  • Sabine Rusterholz: Heaven can wait . 2006. Press release. At kunstaspekte.de kunstaspekte.de
  • Patrick Schaefer: Questions to Costa Vece . In: L'art en jeu . 2004. art-en-jeu.ch ( Memento from October 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  • Claudia Spinelli: Check with me. Costa Vece knows what holds Switzerland together . In: Die Weltwoche . No. 23-2006
  • Hans-Peter Wittwer: Vece, Costa . In: Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Art . Ed .: Swiss Institute for Art Research. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath: On quiet feet. Contemporary art in Appenzell museums . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of July 10, 2007
  2. ↑ Bernd Soballa: Sufficiently unsettled . In: Friday May 9, 2003
  3. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from July 25, 2004
  4. ↑ SF1 on June 10, 2007
  5. ↑ The World Week . No. 23-2006
  6. ↑ Questions to Costa Vece . In: L'art en jeu . 2004.

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personal data
SURNAME Vece, Costa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vece, Costa Mauro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss video and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Herisau