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Nicola Costantino
ISBN: 9783775735391
(HB - E/ SP)
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Images from twenty years of work - on the sensibility of torment.
The sculptures, installations, videos, and photographs by Nicola Costantino (*1964, Rosario, Argentina) achieve what the visual arts should: they catch the eye and alter perception. Because they are predominately rooted in sensation, and not just in concepts, her works of art trigger an immediate, physical reaction. Casts of animal foetuses, molds of human skin, and soaps made with the artist's own fat build up a tension between ornamentation and revulsion.
Her innovation revolves around ethical values and the alienation from nature. Even sexuality is turned into compulsion, flesh, and sweating bodies, becoming an oppressive eroticism exaggerated to the brink of nausea.
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