Nicola Costantino
05 Mar - 15 May 2011
© Nicola Costantino
Pair of Shoes, 2000
Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zürich
Photo: Peter Schälchli, Zürich
Pair of Shoes, 2000
Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zürich
Photo: Peter Schälchli, Zürich
NICOLA COSTANTINO
05.03.2011 – 15.05.2011
Nicola Costantino is one of Argentina’s most intriguing and exciting artists, and the solo exhibition, with its objects, installations and photographs from the 1990s to the present day, offers a close look at her fascinating and compelling work.
The show features alienated human and animal bodies as well as the artist’s own photographic double.
Although Costantino’s ominous, staged and highly artificial photographs seem at first glance to confirm celebrated psychoanalytic clichés, they simultaneously subvert and critique these same commonplaces. Filled with dramatic suspense and ambiguity, these pictures also frequently advert, albeit with an ironic wink of the eye, to images plundered from the abundant storehouse of art and film history. Costantino’s confrontation with the animal kingdom, meanwhile, is distinguished by both a sense of the grotesque and a fondness for her subjects, whose bodies she assembles anew to create absurdly hybrid sculptures marked by subtle irony and delicate subterfuge.
Finally, in models and accessories of her own confection Costantino transforms human skin into fashion and uses her play with artifice to ring the satirical changes on the world of haute couture – prêt à porter!
The exhibition is Daros Latinamerica Collection’s first show as guest of the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, in its new exhibition space at Hubertus Exhibitions in Zurich.
05.03.2011 – 15.05.2011
Nicola Costantino is one of Argentina’s most intriguing and exciting artists, and the solo exhibition, with its objects, installations and photographs from the 1990s to the present day, offers a close look at her fascinating and compelling work.
The show features alienated human and animal bodies as well as the artist’s own photographic double.
Although Costantino’s ominous, staged and highly artificial photographs seem at first glance to confirm celebrated psychoanalytic clichés, they simultaneously subvert and critique these same commonplaces. Filled with dramatic suspense and ambiguity, these pictures also frequently advert, albeit with an ironic wink of the eye, to images plundered from the abundant storehouse of art and film history. Costantino’s confrontation with the animal kingdom, meanwhile, is distinguished by both a sense of the grotesque and a fondness for her subjects, whose bodies she assembles anew to create absurdly hybrid sculptures marked by subtle irony and delicate subterfuge.
Finally, in models and accessories of her own confection Costantino transforms human skin into fashion and uses her play with artifice to ring the satirical changes on the world of haute couture – prêt à porter!
The exhibition is Daros Latinamerica Collection’s first show as guest of the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, in its new exhibition space at Hubertus Exhibitions in Zurich.