GIACOMO COSTA

Employing sophisticated digital techniques borrowed from the world of cinema the artist reinterprets the collective imagination of the metropolis, generating futuristic urban landscapes and creating unreal cityscapes, spaces with vast perspectives that include spectacular ruins and architectures.

These fantastic, apocalyptic images borrow their aesthetic from science fiction literature and film, suspended between tradition and modernity, real and dreamlike, where architecture takes on a colossal scale. At the same time, so rich in meticulous details, they seem to be the fruit of a contemporary reinterpretation of the most classic topos, that of the ideal city. Pulverised landscapes and lonely structures that inhabit anonymous cities are constant element in his works, a metaphor for the depersonalisation that affects contemporary metropolises whose buildings soar above the human scale.

His research covers fourteen years of activity, setting out from the first “urban agglomerates” right on down to the artist’s most extreme and crazy visions.