Nicola Costantino
dal 3/3/2011 al 14/5/2011
Segnalato da
3/3/2011
Nicola Costantino
Migros Museum, Zurich
She is one of Argentina's most intriguing and exciting artists, and the exhibition, with some 25 objects, installations and photographs from the 1990s to the present day, offers a close look at her work. It features alienated human and animal bodies as well as the artist's own photographic double. This is Daros Latinamerica Collection's first show as guest of the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, in its new exhibition space.
Daros Latinamerica Collection as guest of Migros Museum for Contemporary Art with its
first show NICOLA COSTANTINO
Nicola Costantino is one of Argentina’s most intriguing and exciting artists, and the solo
show, with some 25 objects, installations and photographs from the 1990s to the present
day, offers a close look at her fascinating work.
Daros Latinamerica is delighted that it can continue to show work, if in a somewhat reduced
capacity, as temporary guest of the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art at Hubertus
Exhibitions, the new centre in use during renovation of the Löwenbräu-Areal in Zurich. The first
of its two planned annual exhibitions, each to last ten weeks, is devoted to the work of Argentine
artist Nicola Costantino (born 1964, lives and works in Buenos Aires).
The monographic show features alienated human and animal bodies as well as the artist’s own
photographic double.
Although Costantino’s ominous, staged and highly artificial photographs seem at first glance to
confirm celebrated psychoanalytic clichés, they simultaneously subvert and critique these same
commonplaces. Filled with dramatic suspense and ambiguity, these pictures also frequently
advert, albeit with an ironic wink of the eye, to images plundered from the abundant storehouse
of art and film history.
Costantino’s confrontation with the animal kingdom, meanwhile, is distinguished by both a
sense of the grotesque and a fondness for her subjects, whose bodies she assembles anew to
create absurdly hybrid sculptures marked by subtle irony and delicate subterfuge.
Finally, in models and accessories of her own confection Costantino transforms human skin into
fashion and uses her play with artifice to ring the satirical changes on the world of haute couture
– prêt à porter!
Image: Identical Nicolas after Arbus, 2007. Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zürich
For further information please contact:
Daros Latinamerica AG Limmatstrasse 275 - 8005 Zurich
Miriam Mahler T +41 44 2256565 press@daros-latinamerica.net
Vernissage: Friday, March 4, 2011, 6 – 8 pm, Press Conference at 11.30 am
Tour the exhibition with the artist: Saturday, March 5, 2011, 4 – 5 pm
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Hubertus Exhibitions
Albisriederstrasse 199a 8047 Zurich
Hours:
Tue, Wed, Fri 12 – 6 pm
Thu 12 – 8 pm
Sat, Sun 11 am – 5 pm