The new series of works included in The Sunday Side represents the Sunday side of things, it’s a state of complete
serenity framed in an instant.
Time fixed in pictures, clips, fruits loses itself in a curtain, in a drapery or in a sea of color in which there is no ground plane, everything is suspended in a timeless world.
An associations’ crossover combining classical painting features, still lifes and landscapes, with serially repeated
constructions, frameworks, urban supports.
The artworks initially put us in a scenario, and by the time the spectators’ view settles in an abstract color vibe, a window opens on a real, defined world, in which the artist identifies, snapshot-wise, a single photo memory.
Then, a series of instinctive scrapes or a spray line bring us back to the now, as if the artist had just finished the
intervention, a moment before the spectator’s view.
Furnishings, repeated patterns and trompe-l’oeil melted with the impulsive and repetitive wheels’ carving contribute to the space construction, in a constant balance between stasis and explosive movement, as if we have been there forever, but we just missed the action.
Photo: Marco Davolio
The new series of works included in The Sunday Side represents the Sunday side of things, it’s a state of complete
serenity framed in an instant.
Time fixed in pictures, clips, fruits loses itself in a curtain, in a drapery or in a sea of color in which there is no ground plane, everything is suspended in a timeless world.
An associations’ crossover combining classical painting features, still lifes and landscapes, with serially repeated
constructions, frameworks, urban supports.
The artworks initially put us in a scenario, and by the time the spectators’ view settles in an abstract color vibe, a window opens on a real, defined world, in which the artist identifies, snapshot-wise, a single photo memory.
Then, a series of instinctive scrapes or a spray line bring us back to the now, as if the artist had just finished the
intervention, a moment before the spectator’s view.
Furnishings, repeated patterns and trompe-l’oeil melted with the impulsive and repetitive wheels’ carving contribute to the space construction, in a constant balance between stasis and explosive movement, as if we have been there forever, but we just missed the action.
Photo: Marco Davolio
- Cosimo CasoniCanvas Ride #3, 2016
Spray paint, oil, dirt on canvas
200 x 150cm - Cosimo CasoniThe end of Summer, 2015
Spray paint, oil on canvas in artist’s frame
140 x 100cm - Cosimo CasoniUntitled, 2016
Oil, dirt on canvas in artist’s frame
25 x 20 cmeach - Cosimo CasoniCanvasride #3, 2016
Oil, bitumen on canvas in artist’s frame
170 x 120cm - Cosimo CasoniSunday side, 2016
Oil, bitumen on canvas in artist’s frame
140 x 100cm - Cosimo CasoniMassive attack, 2016
Oil on canvas
46 x 32cm - Cosimo CasoniLimonata, 2016
Oil, bitumen on canvas
200 x 150cm - Cosimo CasoniLa strada di casa, 2016
Oil, dirt on canvas in artist’s frame
140 x 100cm - Cosimo CasoniGrind, 2016
Oil on iron handrail
200 x 48 x 105cm - Cosimo Casoni
- installation viewThe Sunday Side, 2016
at Clima,Milan
Cosimo Casoni (b. 1990 in Florence, Italy) lives and works between Florence and Milan. He received his Degree from Nuova
Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA), Milan in 2013.
Recent solo exhibitions: Tetris, Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milan.
Recent group exhibitions: Spinnerei Winter Gallery Tour, Leipzig; Soprannaturale, Tintoria, Milan; L’Esprit De L’Escalier, curated by Alice Ginaldi, Dimora Artica, Milan; New Italian Painting, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin; The Space In-Between Us, curated by Giovanna Manzotti, Villa Brivio, Nova Milanese; Nuova Pittura Italiana, Spazio Parobrod, Belgrade; Academy Awards: Barbarie, curated by
Marcello Maloberti and Adrian Paci, Viafarini DOCVA, Milan.
Awards and Residencies: Premio Frase (third classified); Premio Arte Laguna, Arsenale, Venice (finalist Under 25); LIA – Leipziger
Internationales Atelierprogramm, Leipzig; Premio Celeste, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Pan, Naples (finalist); Premio Arte, curated by Urbano Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan (winner).
