Adriano Costa

26 Jun-10 Aug 2014

Overview

Adriano Costa translates the detritus of our culture into a multitude of mysterious compositions. In the installation From My Body Comes, Through Your Body Goes (2009–2012) brightly coloured towels, bronze cast plaques, found umbrellas, gold coated rubber and collaged tourist T-shirts are deftly combined to suggest unspecified symbolic meanings. Through an intuitive and physical approach, which he compares to the rhythms of music, Costa composes shapes and textures that are minimal yet richly full of narrative possibility. Questions about the boundaries of art and non-art objects, and the distinction between the throwaway and the precious are activated. Presented in the Collection’s Middle Gallery, Costa’s installation will react to the residual domestic traces of fireplace and furniture with new elements produced in situ.