Cosimo Casoni

Cosimo Casoni seeks formal solutions that subject the depiction of objects and of natural and urban elements to processes of perspectival redefinition. He does so through a visual grammar that favours the painterly stroke, above all in oil, but also watercolour and drawing, by way of collage and video: media that the artist experiments with constantly, leaving them open to a glimmer of mutual hybridisation, in a continuous oscillation between figuration and abstraction.

Landscapes and still lifes combine with monochrome surfaces and graphic signs; suspended, quiet images are suddenly disturbed and interrupted by rapid gestures. Objects undergo an organic synthesis that emphasises the sculptural dimension of some of their parts; touches of colour appear as unstable structures, forms in progress, not entirely delineated, that turn the space of the canvas into a place of mental reflection. Elements drawn from traditional painting, graffiti and even skateboarding come together to create surreal contrasts aimed at evoking personal interpretations and meanings. Everything overlaps in a play of visual weights and chromatic balances that never exhausts itself in a purely formal exercise.