Cosimo Casoni 1990
Lives in Milan and Grosseto. Works in Milan and Grosseto.
Represented by:
Valerius Gallery
Cosimo Casoni (1990) was born in Florence.
He lives and works between Grosseto and Milan.
Casoni’s work mainly focuses on painting and its possibilities, in a view of a constant art-life relationship. The artist combines the traditional themes of landscape and still life with various post-graf ti styles: in particular “skate painting” and “ ngertricks”. In recent years, these two approaches have characterized his research, which has mainly focused on the study of the “sign” as a vehicle of evocative, aesthetic and compositional aspects.
Actions such as using the skateboard deck as a large brush, or marking the pictorial material with ngers, are used both individually and as part and parcel of more complex works, through a pictorial process struc- tured in layers, made of overlaps and cancellations.
The artist’s restless nature is combined with an opposing desire for order: geometry becomes the enclosure in which to dare and experiment; his creative process consists in a continuous exercise based on the alterna- tion of planning and improvising, moments of action and of thought.
Casoni’s paintings look like rebuses with no single solution, in which the collective imagination meets the artist’s personal experience. His pictures represent a mental space in which the artist can organize the elements, the actions and the techniques as instruments on a score. By looking for possible meanings and new visual geographies, Casoni creates images that live in balance between stillness and movement, reality and illusion.
He lives and works between Grosseto and Milan.
Casoni’s work mainly focuses on painting and its possibilities, in a view of a constant art-life relationship. The artist combines the traditional themes of landscape and still life with various post-graf ti styles: in particular “skate painting” and “ ngertricks”. In recent years, these two approaches have characterized his research, which has mainly focused on the study of the “sign” as a vehicle of evocative, aesthetic and compositional aspects.
Actions such as using the skateboard deck as a large brush, or marking the pictorial material with ngers, are used both individually and as part and parcel of more complex works, through a pictorial process struc- tured in layers, made of overlaps and cancellations.
The artist’s restless nature is combined with an opposing desire for order: geometry becomes the enclosure in which to dare and experiment; his creative process consists in a continuous exercise based on the alterna- tion of planning and improvising, moments of action and of thought.
Casoni’s paintings look like rebuses with no single solution, in which the collective imagination meets the artist’s personal experience. His pictures represent a mental space in which the artist can organize the elements, the actions and the techniques as instruments on a score. By looking for possible meanings and new visual geographies, Casoni creates images that live in balance between stillness and movement, reality and illusion.
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EDUCATION
2010 - 2013 Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts and Painting, final grades 110/110 with honours at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA), Milano
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Sliding Windowsy, curated by Benedetta Monti and Contemporary Cluster at IRL Gallery, New York
2023 Celebration of Life, Piermarq Gallery, Sidney
2022 “Cavalloni”, Open Studio / Solo presentation curated by Eric Mangen, Luxembourg
2021 Piermarq gallery, Aspettando il sole (Waiting for the sun), Sidney,
2019 The Wall Project n 6, curated by Federico Montagna, Milan
2018 Vivace Sostenuto Andante, (with Luigi Carboni and Thomas Lange), Fondazione 107, curated by Federio Piccari, Turin
2016 The Sunday Side, Clima Gallery, Milan
2015 Utopian Vivarium, C2 Contemporanea2, Florence
2014 Tetris (dual exibition) Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milan
FAIRS
2024 Luxemburg Art Week, Valerius Gallery (upcoming)
2024 Can Art, Piermarq gallery, Ibiza (upcoming)
2021 Art Verona, Rizzuto gallery, Verona (IT)
2021 Swab, Yudicone Gallery, Barcellona
2020 Sidney contemporary, Piermarq Gallery, Sidney
2017 Art Verona, Solo Booth with Clima Gallery, Verona (IT)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Sof Art (Matteo Novarese), Bologna (upcoming) Solid Ground, Uhlig Gallery, Leipzig (GE) 2023 Fall, Residency group show, curated by Eric Mangen, Luxembourg Brut Reviere,, curated by Stephen Burke, Contemporary Cluster, Rome
Riportando tutto a casa, Museo delle navi Romane, curated by Lorenzo Madaro, Nemi (Rome)
Head Games, Piermarq, Sidney 2022 Summer hang, Piermarq Gallery, Sidney
Postvandalism, Omni Gallery, curated by Stephen Bardseley, London
Singolareplurale, le Clarisse, Grosseto A Moment, Tesoro Collection, Amsterdam
2021 Summer group show, Piermarq Gallery, Sidney
Ciak Colletting, curated by Irene So a Comi, Palazzo Orti Manara, Verona
The Wall Project n 10, curated by Artoday Projects, Art Noble Gallery, Milan
Salon Palermo, Rizzuto gallery, curated by Antonio Grulli, Palermo Contamination, G/ART/EN, gallery, Como
NBB gallery, with: Clemens Bher, Clement Mancini, Lenia Hauser, Berlin
2020 I KNOW YOU KNOW THAT YOU KNOW, Yudikone Gallery, curated by Gino Bosa, Brescia
Works on paper, online exhibition, Piermarq Gallery, Sidney
2019 My blueberry night, curated by Antonio Grulli, Bergamo
Luna Nuova, Residenza la Fornace, curated by Edoardo Manzoni and Giada Olivotto
Hortus Conclusus, Fondazione 107, Turin
One Night Only, curated by Hunted Projects, Edinburgh
2018 Switch, Isorrophia home gallery, Milan
2017 Voyage au bout de la nuit, The Court, curated by Maurizio Vicerè, Pescara
Forever Never Comes, curated by Lapo Simeoni, Area archeologica della maremma Roselle (GR)
Purple Drank, Artopia Gallery, curated by Davide Allieri, Milan
Passengers, The Flat Massimo Carasi gallery, curated by Contu Claudia, Milan
2016 Soprannaturale, Tintoria, curated by Francesco Lecci and Gerladine Blais, Milan
2015 Spinnerei Gallery Tour, Leipzig
LIA Open Studios, Leipzig
L’espirit de l’escalier, Milano Dimora Artica, curated by Alice Ginaldi
New Italian Painting, Galerie Shultz, Berlin
2014 Nuova Pittura Italiana Palazzo Soderini, Milan
The space Between-us, curated by Giovanna Manzotti Villa Brivio, Nova Milanese
Nuova pittura Italiana Galleria Interno 18, Milano
2013 Nuova Pittura Italiana, Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milano
2012 Academy Awards: Barbarie, curated by Marcello Maloberti e Adrian Paci Viafarini DOCVA, Milano
2010 - 2013 Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts and Painting, final grades 110/110 with honours at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA), Milano
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Sliding Windowsy, curated by Benedetta Monti and Contemporary Cluster at IRL Gallery, New York
2023 Celebration of Life, Piermarq Gallery, Sidney
2022 “Cavalloni”, Open Studio / Solo presentation curated by Eric Mangen, Luxembourg
2021 Piermarq gallery, Aspettando il sole (Waiting for the sun), Sidney,
2019 The Wall Project n 6, curated by Federico Montagna, Milan
2018 Vivace Sostenuto Andante, (with Luigi Carboni and Thomas Lange), Fondazione 107, curated by Federio Piccari, Turin
2016 The Sunday Side, Clima Gallery, Milan
2015 Utopian Vivarium, C2 Contemporanea2, Florence
2014 Tetris (dual exibition) Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milan
FAIRS
2024 Luxemburg Art Week, Valerius Gallery (upcoming)
2024 Can Art, Piermarq gallery, Ibiza (upcoming)
2021 Art Verona, Rizzuto gallery, Verona (IT)
2021 Swab, Yudicone Gallery, Barcellona
2020 Sidney contemporary, Piermarq Gallery, Sidney
2017 Art Verona, Solo Booth with Clima Gallery, Verona (IT)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Sof Art (Matteo Novarese), Bologna (upcoming) Solid Ground, Uhlig Gallery, Leipzig (GE) 2023 Fall, Residency group show, curated by Eric Mangen, Luxembourg Brut Reviere,, curated by Stephen Burke, Contemporary Cluster, Rome
Riportando tutto a casa, Museo delle navi Romane, curated by Lorenzo Madaro, Nemi (Rome)
Head Games, Piermarq, Sidney 2022 Summer hang, Piermarq Gallery, Sidney
Postvandalism, Omni Gallery, curated by Stephen Bardseley, London
Singolareplurale, le Clarisse, Grosseto A Moment, Tesoro Collection, Amsterdam
2021 Summer group show, Piermarq Gallery, Sidney
Ciak Colletting, curated by Irene So a Comi, Palazzo Orti Manara, Verona
The Wall Project n 10, curated by Artoday Projects, Art Noble Gallery, Milan
Salon Palermo, Rizzuto gallery, curated by Antonio Grulli, Palermo Contamination, G/ART/EN, gallery, Como
NBB gallery, with: Clemens Bher, Clement Mancini, Lenia Hauser, Berlin
2020 I KNOW YOU KNOW THAT YOU KNOW, Yudikone Gallery, curated by Gino Bosa, Brescia
Works on paper, online exhibition, Piermarq Gallery, Sidney
2019 My blueberry night, curated by Antonio Grulli, Bergamo
Luna Nuova, Residenza la Fornace, curated by Edoardo Manzoni and Giada Olivotto
Hortus Conclusus, Fondazione 107, Turin
One Night Only, curated by Hunted Projects, Edinburgh
2018 Switch, Isorrophia home gallery, Milan
2017 Voyage au bout de la nuit, The Court, curated by Maurizio Vicerè, Pescara
Forever Never Comes, curated by Lapo Simeoni, Area archeologica della maremma Roselle (GR)
Purple Drank, Artopia Gallery, curated by Davide Allieri, Milan
Passengers, The Flat Massimo Carasi gallery, curated by Contu Claudia, Milan
2016 Soprannaturale, Tintoria, curated by Francesco Lecci and Gerladine Blais, Milan
2015 Spinnerei Gallery Tour, Leipzig
LIA Open Studios, Leipzig
L’espirit de l’escalier, Milano Dimora Artica, curated by Alice Ginaldi
New Italian Painting, Galerie Shultz, Berlin
2014 Nuova Pittura Italiana Palazzo Soderini, Milan
The space Between-us, curated by Giovanna Manzotti Villa Brivio, Nova Milanese
Nuova pittura Italiana Galleria Interno 18, Milano
2013 Nuova Pittura Italiana, Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milano
2012 Academy Awards: Barbarie, curated by Marcello Maloberti e Adrian Paci Viafarini DOCVA, Milano
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