We would like to introduce the practice of each artist invited to take part in the Post-Industrial Revolution residency . We begin with Christian Costa who was born in Warsaw and now lives in Naples, Italy and Warsaw. He explored the world of art having living in many different European cities such as Wien, Milan, Rome, London. Christian’s artistic practice is focused on identities connected to places and perception of the genius loci. In 2002 along side L.Dalisi, M.Galateo, P.Mezzacapo he founded the container collective, an artistic group and a visual design studio. From 2002 to 2006 he has had twenty exhibitions under the name container. During 2009 he conceived and created, along with the artist Fabrizio Ajello, the public art project Spazi Docili [Docile Spaces] www.spazidocili.org focused on the city of Florence. Other works of his in the field of public art were produced as part of Progetto Isole and N.EST projects.
Project called N.EST (Napoli Est, East Naples), is curated by Danilo Capasso and it's focused on the eastern part of the city, a place where everything that people can imagine related to Naples (art, sea, architecture, archaeology...) is simply lacking. It's a huge industrial area with a lot of very interesting buildings (industrial archeology), some really polluted zones, some little villages absorbed by the city, different types of public housing (government founded in the '60, '70 and '80), the main part of the port, the Business District (Centro Direzionale) and a lot of districts with different characteristics.
In 2005, Chris with his artistic group, took a gray element of the landscape and paint it over with fundamental colors. This simple action changed the life of the entire community. The installation, the painted concrete was a real challenge for everyone in town, but the real success were the kids screaming with joy when we only appeared with colors and brushes! Everyone has to tell his opinion, it was imposible to ignore this thing. The sense of community I felt during this work is something hard to describe. Especially the youngests understood that if you can change your landscape, you can change your future.
His preferred techniques are installation, video and performance, often focused on sound (sound art, sound installations). He uses digital and analog (Hasselblad) photography to explore the ‘desert of the real’ and to produce raw materials to edit in his videos or to assemble in collages, drawings or installations. The idea of ‘place’ is his medium. He is interested in identities connected to places, in the way they are perceived by the people living there and by the people coming from the outside, in the mutual relationship between identity/memory and physical space, as well as in the consequences that socio-economic processes have on cultural perception of space.
Project called N.EST (Napoli Est, East Naples), is curated by Danilo Capasso and it's focused on the eastern part of the city, a place where everything that people can imagine related to Naples (art, sea, architecture, archaeology...) is simply lacking. It's a huge industrial area with a lot of very interesting buildings (industrial archeology), some really polluted zones, some little villages absorbed by the city, different types of public housing (government founded in the '60, '70 and '80), the main part of the port, the Business District (Centro Direzionale) and a lot of districts with different characteristics.
Christian Costa, Neapolis Est cycle, digital photography, 2008.
Christian Costa,, Neapolis Est cycle, digital photography, 2008.
Christian Costa, Neapolis Est #001: Centro Direzionale [Business District] cycle, digital photography, 2007.
Christian Costa,, Neapolis Est cycle, digital photography, 2008.
'Progetto Isole' started in the 2005. During the first edition the group of artists had workshops and meetings with local community for six months. They among others organized a workshop to teach how to properly write an art project and apply for money.
In 2005, Chris with his artistic group, took a gray element of the landscape and paint it over with fundamental colors. This simple action changed the life of the entire community. The installation, the painted concrete was a real challenge for everyone in town, but the real success were the kids screaming with joy when we only appeared with colors and brushes! Everyone has to tell his opinion, it was imposible to ignore this thing. The sense of community I felt during this work is something hard to describe. Especially the youngests understood that if you can change your landscape, you can change your future.
Photos from the Frangiflutti cycle, analog photography, 100 cm x 70 cm, 2005, Christian Costa
His preferred techniques are installation, video and performance, often focused on sound (sound art, sound installations). He uses digital and analog (Hasselblad) photography to explore the ‘desert of the real’ and to produce raw materials to edit in his videos or to assemble in collages, drawings or installations. The idea of ‘place’ is his medium. He is interested in identities connected to places, in the way they are perceived by the people living there and by the people coming from the outside, in the mutual relationship between identity/memory and physical space, as well as in the consequences that socio-economic processes have on cultural perception of space.
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