Artist: Adriano Costa
Exhibition title: ROCK WHORE SHOW 3
Venue: Castiglioni, Milan, Italy
Date: September 25 – November 8, 2019
Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Castiglioni
CASTIGLIONI is pleased to present “ROCK WHORE SHOW 3”, the first show with the gallery by Adriano Costa.
Provoking a tension between humor and political issues and exposing the nuances of cultural value systems over the object, Adriano Costa choreographed his works so that they achieve a kind of movement.
They do not point a rule or define ideas, performing a sort of neutrality. The artist relates unlikely varieties of materials such as concrete, paper, bronze, cloth, wire, wood, among countless others and diverse formats and scales. He references periods in the history of Brazilian art – culture, suburban or elitist – not ignoring the influence of the North hemisphere on it.
Much more about reality, relying on tragic irony than on originality within the process of its creation, Costa tensioned a reflection on the real value of the work of art, addressing the question of how ordinary materials or even noble materials can be transmuted into an art object and vice versa.
ADRIANO COSTA, (1975, São Paulo) lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. His solo exhibitions include:
wetANDsomeOLDstuffVANDALIZEDbyTHEartist, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2018); B A I L E, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2018); DearMeatCutsDevilMayCry, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2016); Every Camel Tells a Story, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2015).
Additionally, his work has been included in institutional group exhibitions as Everyday Poetics, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (2017); Frucht & Faulheit, Lothringer13 Halle, Munich (2017); IMAGINE BRAZIL, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo & Musee D’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France (2014).
Adriano Costa, ROCK WHORE SHOW 3, 2019, exhibition view, Castiglioni, Milan
Adriano Costa, ROCK WHORE SHOW 3, 2019, exhibition view, Castiglioni, Milan
Adriano Costa, ROCK WHORE SHOW 3, 2019, exhibition view, Castiglioni, Milan
Adriano Costa, ROCK WHORE SHOW 3, 2019, exhibition view, Castiglioni, Milan
Adriano Costa, ROCK WHORE SHOW 3, 2019, exhibition view, Castiglioni, Milan
Adriano Costa, ROCK WHORE SHOW 3, 2019, exhibition view, Castiglioni, Milan
Adriano Costa, “CAVALGADA”, 2019, styrofoam cutting table, styrofoam, paspatur, broken chinese cellphone, painted miniatures, lamps, architectural mockup objects, broken russian clock, 135 x 35 x 36 cm
Adriano Costa, “CAVALGADA”, 2019, styrofoam cutting table, styrofoam, paspatur, broken chinese cellphone, painted miniatures, lamps, architectural mockup objects, broken russian clock, 135 x 35 x 36 cm
Adriano Costa, “CAVALGADA”, 2019, styrofoam cutting table, styrofoam, paspatur, broken chinese cellphone, painted miniatures, lamps, architectural mockup objects, broken russian clock, 135 x 35 x 36 cm
Adriano Costa, SamsaraClub , 2019, drawings from 1986 to 2006 , glue , acrylic paint , mounted in wood, 122 x 200 cm
Adriano Costa, SamsaraClub , 2019, drawings from 1986 to 2006 , glue , acrylic paint , mounted in wood, 122 x 200 cm
Adriano Costa, MilanoDisko or U R M Katastrophé, 2019, Acrylic on garbage bags, paper and artist’s clothes, 200 x 122 cm
Adriano Costa, MilanoDisko or U R M Katastrophé, 2019, Acrylic on garbage bags, paper and artist’s clothes, 200 x 122 cm
Adriano Costa, ROCK WHORE SHOW 3, 2019, exhibition view, Castiglioni, Milan
Adriano Costa, PalhaçoBranco PalhaçoPreto PCL politicadocafécumleitche / self-portrait as 2 different clown, clowns anyway, 2019, acrylic and pigment on paper, 29.5 x 21 cm (each)
Adriano Costa, Self Portrait as a Fucking Stupid Clown . Reality Bites you, 2019, ballpoint pen on paper, 29.5 x 21 cm
Adriano Costa, “Ho completato il mio dottorato di ricerca in sostenibilità in Francia”, 2019, Dust, sink plunger poison, hair, glue, and resin on plastic, ⌀ 16,5 cm
Adriano Costa, saia Puta , 2019, acrylic on fabric and towel mounted in wood panel, 86,5 x 54,5 cm
Adriano Costa, 2Bros, Holanda do Sul, 2019, mixed media on wood, 20 x 25 cm
Adriano Costa, Intervention on star old picture, 2019, C-print and marker pen, 42,2 x x30 cm
Adriano Costa, Go Tesco, 2019, Marker pen , adhesive tape , adhesive , and a conversation I had with the artist Thomas Jeppe about a trip to Tel Aviv by WhatsApp on a poster from the Orient Express Train, 97,5 x 61 cm
Adriano Costa, Mário, I just met Him / Good Sex -perks of gender fluidness !, 2019, Acrylic on objet trouvé, 51,5 x 48 cm
Adriano Costa, “Save the Amazon Italian Design Chair“ , 2019, plastic , adhesive tape , plastic chair, artists’s coat, 165 x 55 x 60 cm
Adriano Costa, “Any toast?”, 2019, fabric, Ambiental dimensions
Adriano Costa, Feito com Sangue e Azul, 2019, ballpoint pen, pastel, pigments, tempera and blood on monthly bill sheet, 29.5 x 21 cm
Adriano Costa, Marina, 2019, tempera on styrofoam, cardboard background, 29.5 x 21 cm
Adriano Costa, A pesca da Cavaquinha, 2019, ballpoint pen on styrofoam packing of fish mounted on moldy mirror, 29.5 x 21 cm
Adriano Costa, Um Agamemnon, 2019, iPhone packing, 21 x 29.5 cm
Adriano Costa, Espetáculo sobre O Ordinário or something like this, 2019, mixed media, 29.5 x 21 cm
Adriano Costa, Poem to a dead family, 2019, mixed media, 29.5 x 21 cm
Adriano Costa, Make it South, 2019, ballpoint pen on paper, 29.5 x 21 cm
Adriano Costa, Cúrcuma and Vomit, 2019, turmeric and vomit on napkin, 40 x 40 cm
Adriano Costa, Poem to a Dead Systema – allegro ma non troppo, 2019, ballpoint pen on paper, 29.5 x 21 cm
Adriano Costa, “ a Memorial / a Lake / a Question / my Patience / my Trousers or From Here to No Where “ , 2019, pen and acrylic on wrapping paper, artist’s pants, artist’s friend stickers, mounted in plastic on wood, 75 x 106,5 cm
