Antonio Cosentino (artist)

Antonio Cosentino (born 1970) is an Italian artist.

For the Italian sailor, see Antonio Cosentino (sailor).

Education

Graduated from the Painting Department of Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts.

Work

Cosentino's works are in the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art (Permanent Collection)

Art

Artist and critic Pınar Öğrenci describes Antonio Cosentino's art as follows;

"In Antonio Cosentino’s works, one finds a wealth of images distilled from everyday life, the depths of personal, memory, and the visual culture of the artist’s city. While the shifting character of highbrow and low-brow art was being discussed in the 90’s contemporary art milieus, Cosentino and his artist friends undertook, as it were, the archaeology of a gaze which brought subculture into question. It is from this period on that Cosentino’s painting incorporated materials from the visual culture of our geography without letting one dominate the others: panels, signboards, wrappings and ceramic tiles. The artist’s images embrace an expression that is dislocated and fragmentary, but also somehow holistic and repetitive, thereby breaking open a third window: a mnemonic space that is at once colorful and meditative... While his memory constantly operates like an archivist, the artist documents all sorts of written and visual data. Cosentino’s mobile and ludic setup once again reminds us of the typical obliviousness of modernity, by suggesting concepts such as the fleetingness of megacities and urban architecture, the loss of human scale and localness, the superhuman speed and even consumption."[1]

Solo exhibitions
  • 2018 "Summer was a Beautiful Day", Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • 2016 "boxes of cigarettes and whisky all over the sea, feråre, my love", Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2015 "Mom I’m going out to pour some concrete, with Memed Erdener", Studio X, Istanbul Turkey
  • 2015 "Escape from Marmara", Salt Ulus, Ankara, Turkey
  • 2015 "Painting Exhibition", Nurol Art Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
  • 2014 "Escape from Marmara", Bergsen & Bergsen Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2013 "Tin City, Karaköy Külah, Istanbul", Turkey2011 "Time Tunnel" Gallery Kullukcu, München, Germany
  • 2008 "Picture Book of History and Stuff " Pi Artworks, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2007 "Çimentofayansavize" Evin Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2005 "Sisli – Yesilkoy", Evin Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2004 "Istanbul 2003-Concrete Sea", Evin Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2002 "Luna Park", İş Bank Parmakkapı Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

Group exhibitions
  • 2010: "Arter. Second Exhibition" [2]
  • 2010: "Hafriyat. Spare Time. Great Work." [3]
  • 2010: "Tactics of Invisibility" [4]
  • 2009: "Istanbul Next Wave" Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
  • 2008: "Becoming Istanbul ",[5] Frankfurt, Germany

Further reading
  • Odenthal, Johannes (2009). Odenthal, Johannes; Güzelhan, Çetin (eds.). Istanbul Next Wave: zeitgenössische Kunst aus Istanbul. Steidl Gerhard Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86521-978-7.
  • Stockhaus, Heike, ed. (2008). Made in Turkey: Positionen türkischer Künstler 1978-2008. Ernst Barlach Ges. ISBN 978-3-930100-24-8.
  • Amirsadeghi, Hossein, ed. (2010). Unleashed. Contemporary Art from Turkey. Thames&Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-97702-6.
  • Balic, Ilkay; Dikbas, Nazim; Ayvaz, Emre; et al., eds. (2010). Second Exhibition Kitap 1/2. Arter. ISBN 978-975-6959-41-1.

References
  1. http://zilbermangallery.com/antonio-cosentino-a325.html
  2. http://www.arter.org.tr/W3/?sAction=CurrentExhibitions&iExhibitionId=24
  3. http://www.muenchen.de/verticals/Veranstaltungen/Events/muc_istanbul/432211/12_spare_time.html
  4. http://www.tanasberlin.de/index.php?nav=aktuell Archived 2011-01-04 at the Wayback Machine Tanas, ,Berlin
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-12-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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