PIERPAOLO KOSS

Pierpaolo Koss is an Italian artist. Since 1978 he refers to different types of expression such as photography, videos, installations, performances without losing the essential unity of the poetic gravity on the relationship between “self and other”, developed and exposed in its open contradiction between reality and appearance, artifice and nature. He is interested in the metaphor between the “political body ” and the “social body ” in the ambiguity of nowadays.

The artist expresses the organic limits by means of action slow-downs and marvelous body motions, which catalyze the gaze of inquisitive beholders and outline the most diverse maps of reality. Koss has always worked for the creation of shifting identities, undergoing continuous transformations, using the body as a tool and not a goal, a battlefield with strong biological limits.

He also did costume reconstruction for theatre and dance for the Futurist movement. Among the most important exhibitions of Pierpaolo Koss are: Menagerie de Verre (Paris), UNESCO (Paris), Espace Pierre Cardin (Paris), Festival of Video Art Locarno (Swiss) with Studio Azzurro, Center for contemporary Art L.Pecci Prato (Italy), La Fabrica (Barcelona, Spain), Museo Muni contemporary Art Francavilla (Italy), Museo of Contemporary Art Genova (Italy), The Photography Show AIPAD (New York), 54th Biennale of Venice “Lo stato dell’Arte” and many more.