Gianluca Cosci

Throughout my career I have been interested in the concept of censorship both in metaphorical and literal sense and this idea often permeated into my work in many ways.

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In my artistic practice (among other things) I have been using found paintings on which I make various interventions and alterations. My "irrevocable" actions could be seen as a metaphor for the supremacy of the owner over the owned.

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Through the painterly intervention on the found artwork I try to establish with it a dialectical - if imbalanced - relationship. The found painting thus, becomes a palimpsest or a forced partner both "saved" and "sacrificed" in equal measure.

 

Gianluca Cosci, 2015